{"product_id":"julien-lessons-of-the-hour","title":"Julien: Lessons of the Hour","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA visual and literary meditation that juxtaposes\u003cbr\u003eIsaac Julien’s artworks with archival images of Frederick Douglass and essays that consider his enduring legacy.\u003c\/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis sumptuously illustrated artist’s book and reader documents Lessons of the Hour (2019), the ten-screen film installation, and a series of related photographic artworks by the internationally acclaimed artist Isaac Julien, that honor the public and private life of one the most visionary figures in U.S. 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 by using the apparatus of photography. Isaac Julien's, \u003cem\u003eLessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader on the journey through Douglass; life and thinking, and is a vital consideration of his political and aesthetic legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IPS\/DAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555504099385,"sku":"210000001523","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/isaac-julien-lessons-of-the-hour-frederick-douglas.jpg?v=1790278877","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/julien-lessons-of-the-hour","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}