Lessons of the hour : Frederick Douglass /
Julien, Isaac,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.
Edinburgh International Film Festival,host institution.
Galerie Ron Mandos,host institution.
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain),host institution.
Gagosian Gallery (London, England),host institution.
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.
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Julien, Isaac
Independent filmmakers
Installations (Art)