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Lessons of the hour : Frederick Douglass

Title

Lessons of the hour : Frederick Douglass / Issac Julien ; edited by Isaac Julien and Cora Gilroy-Ware with Vladimir Seput ; with contributions by Kass Banning [and twelve others].

Author

Julien, Isaac

Publication

[London] : Isaac Julien Studio ; Rochester, NY : Memorial Art Gallery of The University of Rochester ; [Saratoga Springs, NY ] : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, [2021]
New York, NY : DelMonico Books, [2021]
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Description

263 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

"This sumptuously illustrated artist's book and reader documents Lessons of the Hour (2019), the ten-screen film installation and series of related photographic artworks by the internationally acclaimed artist Isaac Julien CBE RA (born 1960), which honor the public and private life of one the most important figures in US history: Frederick Douglass. The visionary African American orator, philosopher, intellectual and self-liberated freedom fighter was born into slavery in Maryland and went on to develop a remarkable aesthetic theory through his thinking and writing on abolitionism and Black self-representation through the apparatus of photography. Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour - Frederick Douglass takes the reader on a journey through Douglass' life and thinking, and is a vital consideration of his political and aesthetic legacy."--Provided by publisher.

Alternative Title

Frederick Douglass

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
Video art.

Note

"Co-published by Isaac Julien Studio, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College."--Colophon.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, March 3-May 12, 2019; Metro Pictures, New York, New York, March 8-April 13, 2019; Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, September 24-December 15, 2019; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, California, March 12-April 25, 2020; Metro Pictures Online Film Festival, June 19-21, 2020; Victoria Miro, London/Venice, July 21-August 29, 2020; McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, California, October 14, 2020-April 24, 2021; Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany, October 30-31, 2020; National Galleries of Scotland, July 29-October 18, 2021; Edinburgh International Film Festival, August 20, 2021; Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, September 3-October 17, 2021; Royal Academy of Arts and Art of London, September 8, 2021 and Octoer 14, 2021; Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, October 7-December 18, 2021.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction : The "dreamy, clairvoyant, poetic, intellectual, and shadowy side / Cora Gilroy-Ware -- Ten thousand agonies : Isaac Julien's Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass paint pictures of "War and slavery" / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- I. Daguerreotypist and photographer J. P. Ball / Deborah Willis -- McEvoy Foundation for the Arts : installation views -- Lecture on pictures : December 3, 1861 (excerpted) / Frederick Douglass -- II. J. P. Ball's studio / Deborah Willis -- Frederick Douglass' camera obscura : representing the antislave "Clothed and in their own form" / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art : installation views -- "To see ourselves as others see us!" : Robert Burns, Frederick Douglass, and the Black radical tradition / Paul Gilroy -- At the same hour : making the interpersonal political in the historiography of human rights / Vrom Ware -- Metro pictures : installation views -- III. Reinventing the archive / Deborah Willis -- Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester : installation views -- Parallel lives sharing a frame : Frederick Douglass and Othello: a meditation on Isaac Julien's Lessons of the hour / Susan Solt -- A grand panorama : Isaac Julien, Frederick Douglass, and Lessons of the hour / Kass Banning and Warren Crichlow -- Poetics of attention : an interview with Isaac Julien / Jennifer A. Gonz̀lez.

Call Number

Sc+ G 22-47

ISBN

9781636810393
163681039X

OCLC

1295405861
1295405861

Author

Julien, Isaac, artist, author, editor.

Title

Lessons of the hour : Frederick Douglass / Issac Julien ; edited by Isaac Julien and Cora Gilroy-Ware with Vladimir Seput ; with contributions by Kass Banning [and twelve others].

Publisher

[London] : Isaac Julien Studio ; Rochester, NY : Memorial Art Gallery of The University of Rochester ; [Saratoga Springs, NY ] : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, [2021]

Distributor

New York, NY : DelMonico Books, [2021]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Gilroy-Ware, Cora, editor.

Seput, Vladimir, editor.

University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery, host institution.

Metro Pictures (Gallery), host institution.

SCAD Museum of Art, host institution.

Jessica Silverman (Gallery), host institution.

Victoria Miro Gallery, host institution.

McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, host institution.

Kino der Kunst, host institution.

National Galleries of Scotland, host institution.

Galerie Ron Mandos, host institution.

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), host institution.

Gagosian Gallery (London, England), host institution.

Edinburgh International Film Festival, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 22-47

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