{"product_id":"cheyney-thompson-isbn-9780262047272","title":"Cheyney Thompson","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the first book-length publications on contemporary artist Cheyney Thompson, whose work is known for its radically forward-looking intellectualism and formal rigor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCheyney Thompson’s (b. 1975) work responds to a long history of debates about how art depicts the world, and about how we come to know the world visually. In these meditations on the artist’s work, Christian Schaernack shows that for Thompson, reality is something that we can know only in terms of probabilities, not absolutes. Thompson often produces work that explores contingency at the formal level, sometimes in his artistic process itself (as Jackson Pollock once did), and sometimes through the use of external constraints such as computer algorithms, which he subverts as often as he follows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe meaning of observation has changed time and time again in the history of art, just as it has in the history of science. Delving into art history, intellectual history, and contemporary continental philosophy, Schaernack offers a multifaceted study of an artist who challenges our assumptions about how the world is ordered. From Thompson’s early “black paintings” to his \u003ci\u003eChronochromes\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eStochastic Process Paintings\u003c\/i\u003e, which engage with the algorithms that govern our digital lives, Schaernack presents a contemporary artist whose work embraces chance and responds to the shifting conditions of the present. This is art that reimagines artwork itself.Preface xi\u003cbr\u003ePassage I. In the \/Name\/ of Painting 1\u003cbr\u003ePassage II. Gericault--Kippenberger--Thompson 11\u003cbr\u003ePassage III. The \"Landlord\" Series 23\u003cbr\u003ePassage IV. \u003ci\u003eGrey Paintings: \u003c\/i\u003eFrom the Studio (Floor) to the Gallery (Wall) 37\u003cbr\u003ePassage V. \u003ci\u003eBlack Paintings: \u003c\/i\u003eOn Facture, and a 'Rite of Passage' 45\u003cbr\u003ePassage VI. \u003ci\u003eChromachromes \u003c\/i\u003e57\u003cbr\u003ePassage VII. The \u003ci\u003eChromachrome: \u003c\/i\u003eFrom Tableau to \u003ci\u003eDispositif \u003c\/i\u003e65\u003cbr\u003ePassage VIII. The World of Robert Macaire 77\u003cbr\u003ePassage IX. A Signature is a Signature...From Mimesis to Metaphor 83\u003cbr\u003ePassage X. \u003ci\u003eChronochromes (recit): \u003c\/i\u003eMetaphors of the Gestural 91\u003cbr\u003ePassage XI. \u003ci\u003eThe Completed Reference: Pedestals and Drunken Walks\u003c\/i\u003e, 2012 101\u003cbr\u003ePassage XII. \u003ci\u003eStochastic Process Paintings \u003c\/i\u003e113\u003cbr\u003ePassage XIII. \u003ci\u003eQuantity Paintings \u003c\/i\u003e127\u003cbr\u003ePassage XIV. Somewhere Some Pictures Sometiems, 2017 137\u003cbr\u003ePassage XV. Bellona, Rubens, and Cezanne: The Reconstruction of Possible Histories, or History Reconfigured 151\u003cbr\u003ePassage XVI. ABHK, 2019 171\u003cbr\u003ePassage XVII. \u003ci\u003eRecit: \u003c\/i\u003eFrom \"Cezanne's Doubt\" to Schrodinger's Cat and into the \"Age of Surveillance Capitalism\" ... 183\u003cbr\u003eCoda 193\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 195\u003cbr\u003eNotes 197Christian Schaernack is a Berlin-based arts journalist who has covered arts since the mid-1990s, including extensive writing for the \u003ci\u003eNeue Zürcher Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305399177445,"sku":"NP9780262047272","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262047272.jpg?v=1767723627","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/cheyney-thompson-isbn-9780262047272","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}