{"product_id":"breaking-frame-julie-wosk-9781475978827","title":"Breaking Frame: Technology, Art, and Design in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBREAKING FRAME\u003c\/em\u003e, first published by Rutgers University Press, is a groundbreaking view of how artists and designers dealt with the tremors of technology as new industries and mechanical inventions dramatically transformed human life. Artists captured the explosive impact of the Industrial Revolution and new transportation machines in their images of factories spewing smoke, trains crashing, and comic views of people-turned-automatons as they happily walk along in their steam-powered legs and ride precariously in their fanciful flying machines. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe provocative introduction new to this Authors Guild-sponsored edition links the book to today's technology, art, and design. Reviewers like Yale professor Alan Trachtenberg have called \u003cem\u003eBREAKING FRAME\u003c\/em\u003e \"perceptive, lucid, engaging\"---\"a book that becomes more pertinent every day.\" Filled with illustrations, the book is an engaging study that will appeal to readers with a wide range of interests including history, art, computers, sociology, engineering, robotics, visual culture, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Wosk has published widely on art and technology, including her books \u003cem\u003eWomen and the Machine: Representations From the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age\u003c\/em\u003e (Johns Hopkins University Press) and \u003cem\u003eAlluring Androids, Robot Women, and Electronic Eves. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julie Wosk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1475978820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781475978827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"Julie Wosk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935540347135,"sku":"9781475978827","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d72dfa4a-626c-4f45-929c-8d867c1544ba.jpg?v=1681420391","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/breaking-frame-julie-wosk-9781475978827","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}