Category: Detroit Industry Murals

• Sheeler, Rivera, and machine-age anxiety

  

  Charles Sheeler and Diego Rivera jumped at the chance to portray Henry Ford’s unprecedented manufacturing complex. Do their pictures celebrate the potential of machines to liberate us from drudgery? Or do they warn us about the dangers of living in a technology-driven society?

  Diane Tucker

  2022-08-09

  American Landscape, Art History, Charles Sheeler, Detroit Industry Murals, Diane Tucker, Diego Rivera Murals, Ford Rouge Plant, Henry Ford

  American Landscape, Charles Sheeler, Detroit Industry Murals, Diane Tucker, Diego Rivera, Great stories about great paintings, Modern Art, Urbanization