Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation "Lessons of the Hour" interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass.
overall: 831⁄2 x 231⁄2 x 231⁄2 in. (212.1 x 59.7 x 59.7 cm.) A (top): 541⁄4 x 201⁄4 x 201⁄4 in. (137.8 x 51.4 x 51.4 cm.) B (base): 291⁄8 x 231⁄2 x 231⁄2 in. (74.0 x 59.7 x 59.7 cm.) C (Madonna): 377⁄8 x 143⁄8 x 121⁄8 in. (96.2 x 36.5 x 30.8 cm.) C (Madonna base):15⁄8 x 143⁄8 x 121⁄8 in. (4.1 x 36.5 x 30.8 cm.) D (halo): 1⁄2 x 131⁄4 in. (1.3 x 33.7 cm.) diam.
Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program
This media is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian.