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One of the murals that make up artist Diego Rivera’s masterpiece “Detroit Industry, or Man and Machine,” partly commissioned by Edsel Ford for the Detroit Institute of the Arts in 1932. The mural depicts the entire manufacturing process of Ford’s famous V8 engine while exploring the relationship between humans and machines. It also stoked controversy since Rivera was an avowed Marxist and the Great Depression had eroded America’s faith in its capitalist system. Not to be outdone in the pearl-clutching, religious leaders decried Rivera’s juxtaposition of Christian figures like the holy family with the creation story of the Aztec goddess Coatlicue, the mother of the moon, stars and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war. (William Dotinga/Courthouse News)
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