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DIEGO RIVERA’S DETROIT INDUSTRY

-DETROIT, MICHIGAN

Commissioned in 1932 by Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford and then president of Ford Motor Company, Rivera’s take on big-time American capitalism simultaneously glorifies the culture of the modern factory as well as slyly savaging the men in charge (his very patrons, in fact). 

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One of my favorite places in my hometown 😀