[ { "id": "Vale2026WP2", "type": "article", "title": "After the Interpretation Changes: Correction, Completion, and the Circulation of Museum Titles", "author": [ { "family": "Vale", "given": "Dorian" } ], "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2026, 10, 17 ] ] }, "genre": "Research working paper", "publisher": "Museum of One", "collection-title": "Museum of One Research Working Papers", "collection-number": "2", "version": "1.0", "number-of-pages": 10, "language": "en", "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.23430200", "URL": "https://www.museumofone.art/after-the-interpretation-changes/", "abstract": "This study distinguishes two changes in the Rijksmuseum’s presentation of Simon Maris’s portrait now titled Isabella: the withdrawal of a racialized catalogue title in 2015, and the fulfilment in 2020 of an announced intention to adopt a name when one became known. The second change does not, by itself, demonstrate revision of the rule governing the first. The records examined at Europeana and Wikimedia Commons reveal different afterlives of the later decision. Europeana retains the descriptive title and an account in which identification remains unfinished. Commons preserves the older wording in the name of its image file while identifying the work as Isabella in the accompanying description. Drawing on my correspondence with Alexander V. Markov, the study follows what these descriptions do, rather than treating their survival as evidence of continuing authority. It finds uneven presentation of the later naming decision, not a demonstrated restoration of the rejected title. Its contribution to Post-Interpretive Criticism is a documentary distinction among correction, completion and circulation.", "keyword": "Post-Interpretive Criticism; Museum of One; Dorian Vale; Alexander Viktorovich Markov; Museum titles; Museum cataloguing; Correction; Completion; Circulation; Interpretive authority; Rijksmuseum; Simon Maris; Isabella; Europeana; Wikimedia Commons; Collection records; Cultural heritage metadata; Documentary research; Provenance; Historical evidence; Art historiography; Documentation; Deactivation; Contestability; Semantic persistence; Reauthorization; Successional authority; Museum terminology; Dutch art; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Art; Art Criticism; Art Theory; Visual Culture Studies; Ethics in Art Criticism; Interpretation and Meaning; Interpretive Restraint; Criticism and Reception Theory; Epistemology of Art", "note": "Version 1.0. Independently authored by Dorian Vale and published by Museum of One as Research Working Paper No. 2, version 1.0. Developed through scholarly correspondence with Alexander Viktorovich Markov and his subsequent critical response to the documentary study. Selected passages and summaries are reproduced with his permission. Markov is not a coauthor, and the study is not a record of formal peer review or agreement with every proposal. The full private correspondence is not published. © 2026 Dorian Vale · Museum of One. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 applies to the author's original contribution. Rights in third-party material and the original correspondence remain with their respective holders. Permission for selected correspondence material does not extend to reproduction of the full exchange.", "custom": { "author-orcid": "https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7737-5094", "author-affiliation": "Museum of One", "author-entity": "https://www.museumofone.art/#dorian-vale", "author-profile": "https://www.museumofone.art/author/dorianvale/", "publisher-entity": "https://www.museumofone.art/#organization", "publisher-url": "https://www.museumofone.art/", "framework": "Post-Interpretive Criticism", "framework-uri": "https://www.museumofone.art/doctrine/#post-interpretive-criticism", "series-url": "https://www.museumofone.art/research-working-papers/", "programme-url": "https://www.museumofone.art/research-critical-language/", "pdf-url": "https://www.museumofone.art/content/files/2026/10/After_the_Interpretation_Changes_Working_Paper_2_v1.0.pdf", "license-uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/", "rights-statement": "© 2026 Dorian Vale · Museum of One. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 applies to the author's original contribution. Rights in third-party material and the original correspondence remain with their respective holders. Permission for selected correspondence material does not extend to reproduction of the full exchange.", "intellectual-role-statement": "Independently authored by Dorian Vale and published by Museum of One as Research Working Paper No. 2, version 1.0. Developed through scholarly correspondence with Alexander Viktorovich Markov and his subsequent critical response to the documentary study. Selected passages and summaries are reproduced with his permission. Markov is not a coauthor, and the study is not a record of formal peer review or agreement with every proposal. The full private correspondence is not published.", "related-records": [ "https://zenodo.org/records/23430200", "https://philpapers.org/rec/VALATI-7", "https://philarchive.org/rec/VALATI-7", "https://works.hcommons.org/records/8cgp5-p1p74", "https://archive.org/details/after-the-interpretation-changes-working-paper-2-v-1.0", "https://archive.museumofone.art/items/23430200.html", "https://hal.science/hal-05803957", "https://www.academia.edu/179106531/After_the_Interpretation_Changes_Correction_Completion_and_the_Circulation_of_Museum_Titles", "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=15tvhjAAAAAJ&citation_for_view=15tvhjAAAAAJ:HE397vMXCloC", "https://www.researchcatalogue.net/researches/4965790" ], "publisher-identifier": { "name": "Museum of One", "identifier": "https://isni.org/isni/0000000528819728", "identifierScheme": "ISNI", "schemeUri": "https://isni.org/" }, "affiliation-identifier": { "name": "Museum of One", "identifier": "https://isni.org/isni/0000000528819728", "identifierScheme": "ISNI", "schemeUri": "https://isni.org/" }, "subject-identifiers": [ { "subject": "Post-Interpretive Criticism", "valueUri": "https://www.museumofone.art/doctrine/#post-interpretive-criticism", "exactMatch": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136308909" } ] } }, { "id": "Vale2026WP1", "type": "article", "title": "Answerability: Exhibition, Documentation, and Historical Evidence in Postwar Japanese Art", "author": [ { "family": "Vale", "given": "Dorian" } ], "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2026, 10, 17 ] ] }, "genre": "Research working paper", "publisher": "Museum of One", "collection-title": "Museum of One Research Working Papers", "collection-number": "1", "version": "1.0", "number-of-pages": 10, "language": "en", "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.23428974", "URL": "https://www.museumofone.art/answerability/", "abstract": "This working paper develops a claim-specific criterion of historical answerability through engagement with Reiko Tomii’s scholarship on operation in postwar Japanese art. It asks when evidence concerning exhibition, documentation, and artistic organization requires an art-historical account to reconsider the boundary of the work it claims to explain.\n\nThe principal case is Shiraga Kazuo’s Challenging Mud. Tomii’s accounts of material preparation and anticipated display are read beside Namiko Kunimoto’s analysis of action, object, agency, and selfhood. Further investigations address press presentation and photographic selection, Hi Red Center and GUN, conditions of authorization, and the differentiation of events and photographic records in museum cataloguing. The comparison does not presume a disagreement between Tomii and Kunimoto or equate evidence of preparation with complete predetermination.\n\nThe method distinguishes attribution, justification, and historical accuracy. Before evaluating a challenge, it fixes a proposition’s referent, meaning, scope, certainty, and evidential basis. Retention, limitation, revision, and suspension identify possible consequences of evidence without becoming compulsory stages or an aesthetic scoring system. The analysis separates a supported preparation-display relation from stronger claims about intention and distinguishes documentation’s original public operation from the reach of its later historical testimony.\n\nThe contribution is a disciplined account of inferential reach within the historical problems Tomii’s research makes visible. It also refines the application of restraint in Post-Interpretive Criticism: the amount of explanation cannot be prescribed before its evidential function is examined. This is a source-critical study of published arguments, not an independently inspected archival reconstruction or an empirical study of museum audiences. The criterion remains open to further cases and scholarly revision.", "keyword": "Historical answerability; Art historiography; Postwar Japanese art; Exhibition history; Documentation; Historical evidence; Artistic operation; Interpretation; Post-Interpretive Criticism; Shiraga Kazuo; Challenging Mud; Reiko Tomii; Namiko Kunimoto; Hi Red Center; GUN; Aesthetics; Museum of One; Dorian Vale; Philosophy of Art; Art Criticism; Art Theory; Visual Culture Studies; Ethics in Art Criticism; Interpretation and Meaning; Interpretive Restraint; Criticism and Reception Theory; Epistemology of Art; Gutai; Japanese avant-garde art; Postwar Japanese art history; Art collectives in Japan; Performance art in Japan; Photographic documentation; Art-historical methodology", "note": "Version 1.0. Independently authored by Dorian Vale following discussion and feedback from art historian Reiko Tomii. Tomii is not a coauthor; no blanket endorsement or formal peer review is implied. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 for the original contribution with stated third-party exceptions.", "custom": { "author-orcid": "https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7737-5094", "author-affiliation": "Museum of One", "author-entity": "https://www.museumofone.art/#dorian-vale", "author-profile": "https://www.museumofone.art/author/dorianvale/", "publisher-entity": "https://www.museumofone.art/#organization", "publisher-url": "https://www.museumofone.art/", "framework": "Post-Interpretive Criticism", "framework-uri": "https://www.museumofone.art/doctrine/#post-interpretive-criticism", "series-url": "https://www.museumofone.art/research-working-papers/", "programme-url": "https://www.museumofone.art/reiko-tomii/", "pdf-url": "https://www.museumofone.art/content/files/2026/10/Answerability_Working_Paper_01_v1_0-1.pdf", "license-uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/", "rights-statement": "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 for the original contribution with stated third-party exceptions.", "intellectual-role-statement": "Independently authored by Dorian Vale following discussion and feedback from art historian Reiko Tomii. Tomii is not a coauthor; no blanket endorsement or formal peer review is implied.", "related-records": [ "https://zenodo.org/records/23428974", "https://works.hcommons.org/records/ft9g1-z8j46", "https://hal.science/hal-05803897", "https://archive.org/details/answerability-working-paper-01-v-1-0", "https://www.academia.edu/179095266/Answerability_Exhibition_Documentation_and_Historical_Evidence_in_Postwar_Japanese_Art", "https://philpapers.org/rec/VALAED-3", "https://philarchive.org/rec/VALAED-3", "https://archive.museumofone.art/items/23428974.html", "https://www.researchcatalogue.net/researches/4965738", "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=15tvhjAAAAAJ&citation_for_view=15tvhjAAAAAJ:t6usbXjVLHcC" ], "publisher-identifier": { "name": "Museum of One", "identifier": "https://isni.org/isni/0000000528819728", "identifierScheme": "ISNI", "schemeUri": "https://isni.org/" }, "affiliation-identifier": { "name": "Museum of One", "identifier": "https://isni.org/isni/0000000528819728", "identifierScheme": "ISNI", "schemeUri": "https://isni.org/" }, "subject-identifiers": [ { "subject": "Post-Interpretive Criticism", "valueUri": "https://www.museumofone.art/doctrine/#post-interpretive-criticism", "exactMatch": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136308909" } ] } }, { "id": "https://www.museumofone.art/art-that-falls-apart-material-fatigue-as-moral-statement/", "type": "article", "title": "Art That Falls Apart: Material Fatigue as Moral Statement", "author": [ { "literal": "Dorian Vale" } ], "URL": "https://www.museumofone.art/art-that-falls-apart-material-fatigue-as-moral-statement/", "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2026, 7, 29 ] ] }, "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.21715084", "publisher": "Museum of One Press" }, { "id": "https://www.museumofone.art/diagnostics-without-possession-an-operational-manual-for-post-interpretive-criticism-operational-reference-for-inter-rater-reliability/", "type": "report", "title": "Diagnostics Without Possession: An Operational Manual for Post-Interpretive Criticism (Operational reference for inter-rater reliability)", "author": [ { "literal": "Dorian Vale" } ], "URL": "https://www.museumofone.art/diagnostics-without-possession-an-operational-manual-for-post-interpretive-criticism-operational-reference-for-inter-rater-reliability/", "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2026 ] ] }, "publisher": "Museum of One Press" }, { "id": "https://www.museumofone.art/dong-yeon-koh/", "type": "webpage", "title": "The Conversation: Dong-Yeon Koh × Dorian Vale", "author": [ { "literal": "Dong-Yeon Koh" }, { "literal": "Dorian Vale" } ], "URL": "https://www.museumofone.art/dong-yeon-koh/" }, { "id": "https://www.museumofone.art/from-husserls-mathematics-to-dufrennes-aesthetics-toward-a-formalization-of-phenomenological-aesthetics/", "type": "article-journal", "title": "From Husserl’s Mathematics to Dufrenne’s Aesthetics: Toward a Formalization of Phenomenological Aesthetics v.2", "author": [ { "literal": "Dorian Vale" } ], "URL": "https://www.museumofone.art/from-husserls-mathematics-to-dufrennes-aesthetics-toward-a-formalization-of-phenomenological-aesthetics/", "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2026 ] ] }, "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.18205916", "publisher": "Museum of One Press", "container-title": "The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism", "ISSN": "2819-7232" }, { "id": "https://www.museumofone.art/measuring-proximity-a-post-interpretive-diagnostic-experiment-in-art-criticism-post-hermeneutic-phenomenology/", "type": "article-journal", "title": "Measuring Proximity: A Post-Interpretive Diagnostic Experiment in Art Criticism (Post-Hermeneutic Phenomenology) v.2", "author": [ { "literal": "Dorian Vale" } ], "URL": "https://www.museumofone.art/measuring-proximity-a-post-interpretive-diagnostic-experiment-in-art-criticism-post-hermeneutic-phenomenology/", "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2026 ] ] }, "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.18155622", "publisher": "Museum of One Press", "container-title": "The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism", "ISSN": "2819-7232" }, { "id": "https://www.museumofone.art/publication-canon-of-witnesses/", "type": "book", "title": "Post-Interpretive Criticism: Volume III - 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