9781636810393

163681039X

Contributions by Kass Banning and Warren Chrichlow, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Jonathan P. Binstock, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Paul Gilroy, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Jennifer A. González, John G. Hanhardt, Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., Susan Solt, Vron Ware, and Deborah Willis.

Co-published by Issac Julien Studio the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Sidmore College.

"This sumptously illustrated artist's book and reader documents 'Lessons of the Hour' (2019), the ten-screen film installation and series or related photographic artworks by the internationally acclaimed artist Isaac Julien CBE RA (born 1960), which honor the public and private life of one of 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 aestetic legacy" -- Website.

Introduction / Cora GilroyWare

"Ten thousand agonies": Isaac Julien's Fredrick and Anna Murray Douglass paint pictures of "War and Slavery" / Celeste-Marie Bernier

I Daguerreotypist and photographer J.P. Ball / Deborah Wilis

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 Gattes, 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 and historigraphy of human rights / Vron 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 mediation 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. González.

Julien, Isaac > Exhibitions.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 > Criticism and interpretation.

Installations (Art) > Exhibitions.

Video art > Exhibitions.

African Americans > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.