Look Again

Artist: Group Exhibition Title: Look Again Author(s): Eleanor Heartney Year: 2010 ISBN: 978-0—89797-389-2  Publisher: Marlborough Gallery, Inc. Book Format: Softcover, 9 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches, 27 pages, 20 color plates This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Look Again, curated by Casey Fremont and Karline Moeller. Focusing on re-appropriation, subversion, and a trompe l’oeil devices employed by a diverse group of international artists, the exhibition was conceived not as an exhaustive survey but rather an editorial selection that juxtaposes established artists with emerging voices.   Through the reconstruction of images referenced from art history or trompe l’oeil devices employed to fool the eye, the artists included in Look Again aim to disrupt the viewer’s expectations and to question the significance of art withdrawn from its original framework. While some artist reinterpret familiar subject matter or reinvent discarded materials, others anachronistically adopt