Pictures and power : imaging and imagining Frederick Douglass (1818-2018) / edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier and Bill E. Lawson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawson, Bill E., 1947- editor.

Bernier, Celeste-Marie, editor.

Series:

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 12.

Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Douglass, Frederick.

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 is the result of decades of collaborations and conversations among academics, artists and activists living and working in the UK and the US. For the first time, contributors map Douglass' eclectic and experimental visual archive across an array of aesthetic, social, political, cultural, historical, ideological and philosophical contexts. While Douglass the activist, diplomat, statesman, politician, autobiographer, orator, essayist, historian, memoirist, correspondent and philosopher has been the focus of a scholarly industry over the decades, Douglass the art historian and the subject of photographs, paintings, prints and sculpture, let alone mass visual culture, has only begun to be explored. Across this volume, scholars share their groundbreaking research investigating Douglass' significance as the subject of visual culture and as himself a self-reflexive image-maker and radical theorist. Pictures and Power has come to life from a conviction endorsed by Douglass himself: the battleground against slavery and the fight for equal rights had many staging grounds and was by no means restricted to the plantation, the antislavery podium, the legal court, the stump circuit, the campaign trail or even the educational institution, but rather bled through every arena of imaginative, political and artistic life. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Imaging Frederick Douglass

1 Pictures and Progress: Frederick Douglass and the Beginnings of an African American Aesthetic in Photography / Donna M. Wells Wells, Donna M. 43

2 The Abolitionist and the Camera: Frederick Douglass' Photographic Half-Century / Zoe Trodd Trodd, Zoe 57

3 Anna Murray Douglass, 'The Mother of Cedar Hill': Photography and the Representation of Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Activism / Earnestine Jenkins Jenkins, Earnestine 77

4 'A Faithful Representation of the Man?' The Pre-Civil War 'Sorrow Images' of Frederick Douglass / Celeste-Marie Bernier Bernier, Celeste-Marie 105

5 Last Objects: Death, Autobiography and the Final Imprint / Fionnghuala Sweeney Sweeney, Fionnghuala 143

Part II Imagining / Frederick Douglass Douglass, Frederick

6 Transatlantic Portrayals of Frederick Douglass and his Liberating Sojourn in Music and Visual Arts 1845-2015 / Alan Rice Rice, Alan 167

7 Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass' Second Skin / Jeffrey C. Stewart Stewart, Jeffrey C. 189

8 Frederick Douglass in the Age of Moving Pictures / Hannah Durkin Durkin, Hannah 231

9 Looking Forward and Looking Back: Rashid Johnson and Frederick Douglass on Photography / Shawn Michelle Smith Smith, Shawn Michelle 255

10 Viral Virtual Varicose Douglass Inside the World Wide Web: Or How to Make a Great Black Man Invisible / Marcus Wood Wood, Marcus 275

11 Subverting the Racist Lens: Frederick Douglass, Humanity and the Power of the Photographic Image / Bill E. Lawson Lawson, Bill E., Maria Brincker Brincker, Maria 299.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1786940574

9781786940575

OCLC:

987682977