Isaac JulienвЂ™s Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass (2019) explores the life of the visionary Black writer, abolitionist, statesman, and freed slave. Courtesy of the artist, Metro Pictures, New York, and Victoria Miro, London/Venice Isaac Julien, Helen Pitts Class of 1859 (Lessons of the Hour), 2019, digital print on Gloss inkjet paper mounted on aluminum.

Installation view, Lessons of the Hour, (OctoвЂ“ March 13, 2021), McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco. Courtesy of the artist, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, and Victoria Miro, London/Venice Isaac Julien, Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (After Frederick Douglass II), 2019, wet-plate Collodion tintype from an original made by Rob Ball for Lessons of the Hour mounted on Tulipwood frame. Ball Studio 1867 (Lessons of The Hour), 2019, digital print on Gloss inkjet paper mounted.

Isaac Julien, Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (The Three Graces), 2020, wet-plate collodion tintype mounted on tulipwood frame. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco Metro Pictures, New York Victoria Miro, London/Venice

Isaac Julien, Rapture 1846 (Lessons of the Hour), 2019, photograph on matte structured paper mounted on aluminum, 59 1/8 x 82 5/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco. Isaac Julien, Lessons of the Hour, 2019 (installation view), ten-screen installation, 35mm film and 4k digital, color, 7.1 surround sound. The text is drawn from the abolitionistвЂ™s public and private writings, some of which are excerpted in Isaac JulienвЂ™s Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass (2019). These three commemorative posters with Frederick DouglassвЂ™ messages of action and equality celebrate a continuing history of protest movements for racial and social justice.

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