Julie Wosk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1137987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Wosk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wosk |
| SIGNATURE | WOSK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Artificial Women
Manus x Machina
Reviewed by: Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology by Metropolitan Museum of Art Julie Wosk (bio) Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In its riveting exhibit Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art presented a feast for the eyes. On view from 5 May to 5 September 2016, it featured dramatically contrasting fashions: exquisite, custom-made h…
Metropolis
Update on the Film Metropolis
Update on the Film Metropolis Julie Wosk To the Editor: There is an important update to my cover essay on Metropolis (T&C, April 2010). Key scenes—thought to have been lost forever when the original film was drastically edited shortly after its release in 1927—were rediscovered and digitally restored in a new version, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2010 and the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood in April 2010. The new…
Designing for Safety
Designing for Safety Safe: Design Takes on Risk, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 16 October 2005–2 January 2006 Julie Wosk Four years after 9/11, more than two years after the invasion of Iraq, and just weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana and Mississippi, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened an exhibit titled Safe: Design Takes on Risk. Its timing lent the exhibit a particular resonance. Safe featured devices designed to provide …
Edison's Eve
Reviewed by: Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life Julie Wosk (bio) Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life. By Gaby Wood. New York: Anchor Books, 2003. Pp. xxviii+304. $14. Edison's Eve at first looks like a study of androids and automata. In the opening chapter, Gaby Wood concentrates on famed eighteenth-century "philosophical toys" such as Vaucanson's eating and excreting duck, Jaquet-Droz's …
Women and the Machine
"Writing from the perspective of an art historian, Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. She takes her readers through a delightful gallery of fiction and high and low art which depicts women in their association with machines. From sitting at the spinning wheel to typing at the typewriter, driving automobiles, piloting airplanes, pounding rivets, and then working on the computer, Wosk te…
Women and the machine
Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. She takes her readers through a gallery of fiction and high and low art which depicts women in their association with machines
Women and the Machine
Writing from the perspective of an art historian (and a former public relations person for Playboy), Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. In this text, she takes her readers through a gallery of fiction and high and low art which depicts women in their association with machines. From sitting at the spinning wheel to typing at the typewriter, to driving automobiles, piloting airplanes, po…
The Artist and the Bridge, 1700-1920 (review)
John Sweetman's book is a handsomely produced compendium of illustrations and commentary on the bridge in paintings and prints. With some initial images dating from the Renaissance, the book covers art from 1700 [End Page 414] through the 1920s but emphasizes European art from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is a valuable reference for those interested in situating bridge imagery in a context of cultural history rather than technologi…
Photographing Desolation
The feelings of profound grief, alarm, and anxiety—and the scenes of unimaginable human and structural devastation—produced by the events of 11 September 2001 were reflected in three very different photographic exhibits held in Manhattan during the final months of 2001 and the early part of 2002. Though the images in the exhibits varied widely, in some ways all these photographers, amateur and professional, were struggling to achieve the same thi…
The Technology of Orgasm
With its provocative title, Rachel Maines's book has several stories to tell. One centers on the social framing of women's sexuality and controversies surrounding the nature and treatment of hystereoneurasthenic disorders. Another, of particular interest to historians of technology, concerns the development of the electromechanical vibrator in the 1880s, a device used by physicians to help women reach orgasm and by women themselves to achieve sex…
The Reconfigured Eye
640 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-photographic Era. By WilliamJ. Mitchell. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992. Pp. x+273; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. William Mitchell has written a seminal study exploring the broad sweep of cultural, technical, and aesthetic changes that have accompa nied the rise of digital imaging. During the early 1990s, we entered a new era in which c…
The Reconfigured Eye
Breaking Frame
The Telling Image
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 845 The Telling Image: The Changing Balance between Pictures and Words in a Technological Age. By Duncan Davies, Diana Bathurst, and Robin Bathurst. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii+ 166; illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. $55.00. The Telling Image takes on an ambitious task. In the space of 159 pages, it explores the changing balance between pictures and words and finds pictures b…
The Telling Image
The communications scene The history of words, numbers, and pictures as records Words, numbers, and pictures in childhood Words, numbers, and pictures: sorting and indexing Pictures and words in engineering, physics, and chemistry Pictures and words in biology and medicine Pictures and words in everyday life and study The way ahead: the future of pictures Appendix: Jack Meadows: Recent work on computer graphics Bibliography Index
Postmodern Currents
138 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media. By Margot Lovejoy. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1989. Pp. xxiii + 333; illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $44.95. The focus of Margot Lovejoy’s study is on three electronic media— video, computers, and photocopiers—that have not only had a dramatic social and economic impact but have also, as the author convincin…
Postmodern Currents
From the Publisher: Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media explores in detail the growing impact of video and computer technologies, and of the Internet, on aesthetic experience and examines the emerging role of the artist as social communicator. It recounts the involvement of such artists as Jenny Holzer, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, and Laurie Anderson, among others, with electronic media and discusses the …
The Impact of Technology on the Human Image in Art
Paintings and sculptures of the past two centuries reflect the way technology has transformed human behavior and human identity. Artists have shown technology heightening as well as diminishing human stature. In some views, humans are ennobled by their technological achievements—gaining pride and dignity from great feats of engineering and mechanical expertise—while in satirical art, people are depicted showing feelings of alarm and anxiety as th…
A Unique Exhibition Space
Humanities and the Machine
Julie Helen Wosk, Humanities and the Machine: Responses to Technology (State University of New York, Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, Bronx, April 3, 1981), Technology and Culture, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Jul., 1982), pp. 435-438
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Humanities and the Machine
Julie Helen Wosk, Humanities and the Machine: Responses to Technology (State University of New York, Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, Bronx, April 3, 1981), Technology and Culture, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Jul., 1982), pp. 435-438
A Unique Exhibition Space
The Impact of Technology on the Human Image in Art
Paintings and sculptures of the past two centuries reflect the way technology has transformed human behavior and human identity. Artists have shown technology heightening as well as diminishing human stature. In some views, humans are ennobled by their technological achievements—gaining pride and dignity from great feats of engineering and mechanical expertise—while in satirical art, people are depicted showing feelings of alarm and anxiety as th…
Postmodern Currents
138 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media. By Margot Lovejoy. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1989. Pp. xxiii + 333; illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $44.95. The focus of Margot Lovejoy’s study is on three electronic media— video, computers, and photocopiers—that have not only had a dramatic social and economic impact but have also, as the author convincin…
Postmodern Currents
From the Publisher: Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media explores in detail the growing impact of video and computer technologies, and of the Internet, on aesthetic experience and examines the emerging role of the artist as social communicator. It recounts the involvement of such artists as Jenny Holzer, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, and Laurie Anderson, among others, with electronic media and discusses the …
The Telling Image
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 845 The Telling Image: The Changing Balance between Pictures and Words in a Technological Age. By Duncan Davies, Diana Bathurst, and Robin Bathurst. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii+ 166; illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. $55.00. The Telling Image takes on an ambitious task. In the space of 159 pages, it explores the changing balance between pictures and words and finds pictures b…
The Telling Image
The communications scene The history of words, numbers, and pictures as records Words, numbers, and pictures in childhood Words, numbers, and pictures: sorting and indexing Pictures and words in engineering, physics, and chemistry Pictures and words in biology and medicine Pictures and words in everyday life and study The way ahead: the future of pictures Appendix: Jack Meadows: Recent work on computer graphics Bibliography Index
The Reconfigured Eye
640 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-photographic Era. By WilliamJ. Mitchell. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992. Pp. x+273; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95. William Mitchell has written a seminal study exploring the broad sweep of cultural, technical, and aesthetic changes that have accompa nied the rise of digital imaging. During the early 1990s, we entered a new era in which c…
The Reconfigured Eye
Breaking Frame
The Technology of Orgasm
With its provocative title, Rachel Maines's book has several stories to tell. One centers on the social framing of women's sexuality and controversies surrounding the nature and treatment of hystereoneurasthenic disorders. Another, of particular interest to historians of technology, concerns the development of the electromechanical vibrator in the 1880s, a device used by physicians to help women reach orgasm and by women themselves to achieve sex…
The Artist and the Bridge, 1700-1920 (review)
John Sweetman's book is a handsomely produced compendium of illustrations and commentary on the bridge in paintings and prints. With some initial images dating from the Renaissance, the book covers art from 1700 [End Page 414] through the 1920s but emphasizes European art from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is a valuable reference for those interested in situating bridge imagery in a context of cultural history rather than technologi…
Photographing Desolation
The feelings of profound grief, alarm, and anxiety—and the scenes of unimaginable human and structural devastation—produced by the events of 11 September 2001 were reflected in three very different photographic exhibits held in Manhattan during the final months of 2001 and the early part of 2002. Though the images in the exhibits varied widely, in some ways all these photographers, amateur and professional, were struggling to achieve the same thi…
Women and the Machine
"Writing from the perspective of an art historian, Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. She takes her readers through a delightful gallery of fiction and high and low art which depicts women in their association with machines. From sitting at the spinning wheel to typing at the typewriter, driving automobiles, piloting airplanes, pounding rivets, and then working on the computer, Wosk te…
Women and the machine
Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. She takes her readers through a gallery of fiction and high and low art which depicts women in their association with machines
Women and the Machine
Writing from the perspective of an art historian (and a former public relations person for Playboy), Julie Wosk examines the role of machines in helping women reconfigure and transform their lives. In this text, she takes her readers through a gallery of fiction and high and low art which depicts women in their association with machines. From sitting at the spinning wheel to typing at the typewriter, to driving automobiles, piloting airplanes, po…
Edison's Eve
Reviewed by: Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life Julie Wosk (bio) Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life. By Gaby Wood. New York: Anchor Books, 2003. Pp. xxviii+304. $14. Edison's Eve at first looks like a study of androids and automata. In the opening chapter, Gaby Wood concentrates on famed eighteenth-century "philosophical toys" such as Vaucanson's eating and excreting duck, Jaquet-Droz's …
Designing for Safety
Designing for Safety Safe: Design Takes on Risk, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 16 October 2005–2 January 2006 Julie Wosk Four years after 9/11, more than two years after the invasion of Iraq, and just weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana and Mississippi, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened an exhibit titled Safe: Design Takes on Risk. Its timing lent the exhibit a particular resonance. Safe featured devices designed to provide …
Metropolis
Update on the Film Metropolis
Update on the Film Metropolis Julie Wosk To the Editor: There is an important update to my cover essay on Metropolis (T&C, April 2010). Key scenes—thought to have been lost forever when the original film was drastically edited shortly after its release in 1927—were rediscovered and digitally restored in a new version, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2010 and the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood in April 2010. The new…
Manus x Machina
Reviewed by: Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology by Metropolitan Museum of Art Julie Wosk (bio) Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In its riveting exhibit Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art presented a feast for the eyes. On view from 5 May to 5 September 2016, it featured dramatically contrasting fashions: exquisite, custom-made h…
Artificial Women
Art (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Visual arts (12 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Art history (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)