Pictures and Power - Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018

Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 is the first book to investigate Frederick Douglass' eclectic and experimental visual archive across an array of aesthetic, social, political, cultural, historical, ideological, and philosophical contexts. Scholars investigate Douglass as the subject of visual culture and as himself a self-reflexive image-maker and radical theorist.

About the author

Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of Black Studies and Personal Chair in English Literature, University of Edinburgh.

Bill E. Lawson is Emeritus, Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at the University of Memphis.

Summary

Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018 is the first book to investigate Frederick Douglass' eclectic and experimental visual archive across an array of aesthetic, social, political, cultural, historical, ideological, and philosophical contexts. Scholars investigate Douglass as the subject of visual culture and as himself a self-reflexive image-maker and radical theorist.

Product details

• Authors: Celeste-Marie Bernier, Celeste-Marie (School of Literatures Bernier, Celeste-Marie Lawson Bernier
• Assisted by: Celeste-Marie Bernier (Editor), Celeste-Marie (School of Literatures Bernier (Editor), Bill E Lawson (Editor), Bill E. Lawson (Editor), Professor Bill E. Lawson (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781786940575
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-057-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery; Liverpool Studies in Internati; Liverpool Studies in International Slavery; Liverpool Studies in Internati
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries