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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].
Fine Arts Library N6797.J95 A4 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Julien, Isaac, author, editor.
- Conference Name:
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, host institution.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
- Douglass, Frederick.
- Julien, Isaac--Exhibitions.
- Julien, Isaac.
- Independent filmmakers--Great Britain.
- Independent filmmakers.
- Installations (Art)--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Installations (Art).
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Video art.
- Physical Description:
- 263 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Distribution:
- New York, NY : DelMonico Books [2021]
- Other Title:
- Frederick Douglass
- Place of 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]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : The "dreamy, clairvoyant, poetic, intellectual, and shadowy side / Cora Gilroy-Ware
- Ten thousand agonies / Celeste-Marie Bernier
- I. Daguerreotypist and photographer J. P. Ball / Deborah Willis
- McEvoy foundation for the arts : installation views
- Lecture on pictures / Frederick Douglass
- II. J. P. Ball's studio / Deborah Willis
- Frederick Douglass' camera obscura / Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Savannah college of art and design museum of art : installation views
- "To see ourselves as others see us!" / Paul Gilroy
- At the same hour / Vrom Ware
- Metro pictures : installation views
- III. Reinventing the archive / Deborah Willis
- Memorial art gallery on the university of Rochester : installation views
- Parallel lives sharing a frame / Susan Solt
- A grand panorama / Kass Banning and Warren Crichlow
- Poetics of attention / Jennifer A. González.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "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.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781636810393
- 163681039X
- OCLC:
- 1295405861
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