World upside down
Subtitle: Le monde à l ̕envers
By: Richard William Hill
Contributors: Walter Phillips Gallery; Agnes Etherington Art Centre; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Musée d'art de Joliette
Publisher: Walter Phillips Gallery; Agnes Etherington Art Centre; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Musé́e D'Art de Joliette; Banff Centre Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Banff, AB
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781894773287
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Exhibitions; Symbolic inversion in art; Walter Phillips Gallery
Other titles: Monde à l ̕envers
Description: "The world upside down, as visualized by artists, is one in which the symbolic order is turned on its head: male and female, Black and White, Aboriginal and European. This publication of a group exhibition surveys the strategy of symbolic inversion used by contemporary artists, while also providing historical context on Western and Indigenous North American traditions of inversion. As an artistic strategy, inversion illuminates and challenges the visual conventions that police social hierarchies. In each inversion the artist turns a hierarchical dichotomy upside down. In most cases the dichotomy does not survive the experience, ultimately breaking down under the strain of its own absurdity and liberating us, if only for the moment, from its tyranny."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Sept. 30, 2006-March 4, 2007, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Oct. 20, 2007-Feb. 17, 2008, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, June 5-Aug. 30, 2008 and the Musée d'art de Joliette, Québec,Sept. 27, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and French.
Table of contents: title: An Introduction to Several Worlds Upside Down  -- Richard William Hill; title: Killer Hares and Talking Apes: Worlds Upside Down in Western Art from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period  -- Richard William Hill; title: Order of Life and Death -- ; title: You Are Never Just One Thing in One Place: Tricksters and Contrary Spirits: A discussion between Cheryl L'Hirondell, Joseph Nayhowtow and Richard William Hill  -- Cheryl L'Hirondell, Joseph Nayhowtow and Richard William Hill; title: Drag Racing (Dressing Up White) and the Canon Upside Down: Inversion in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture -- Richard William Hill.