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Isaac Julien
I Dream a World
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Catalogues the recent critically acclaimed exhibition of Isaac Julien's work at the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Sir Isaac Julien (b 1960), one of the UK's leading artists working in film and video, is celebrated for his poetic yet astutely political films and video installations that...
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The tie-in publication for a major exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this book is a comprehensive retrospective of the celebrated video artist Isaac Julien.
Catalogues the first thorough exhibition of Isaac Julien's work in the USA, and the largest to date on his film and video installations
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Catalogues the recent critically acclaimed exhibition of Isaac Julien's work at the de Young Museum, San Francisco.
Sir Isaac Julien (b 1960), one of the UK's leading artists working in film and video, is celebrated for his poetic yet astutely political films and video installations that reflect on the intersection of power, politics, and personal experience through the lens of identity, race, and sexuality. Distinguished by their fusion of fact and fiction, social critique, and aesthetic immersion, his video installations offer poetic meditations on catalytic political and cultural events that have shaped the lives of individuals and societies around the world. His work breaks down the barriers between different artistic disciplines, melding references to cinema, art, poetry, performance, and music into spellbinding political allegories that challenge our understanding of histories, both past and present.
Isaac Julien: I Dream a World accompanies the first comprehensive retrospective of this renowned artist and filmmaker in the United States. Centering ten of the artist's key works shot across the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe, this volume situates his work within a global context. Provocative essays by a roster of contemporary writers and lavish galleries that feature multiple views of Julien's work further mark this as an indispensable book on the artist and the subject of art history today.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780500298893
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 September 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustration: 300 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 190.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 2080g
Pages: 360
About the Author
Claudia Schmuckli is Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Known for coining the term 'New Queer Cinema', B. Ruby Rich is a Professor of Film and Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. Hilton Als is a staff writer and theatre critic for The New Yorker. Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archeology at the University of Oxford.
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