“Detroit Industry: Art and Healing in the Body Politic,” review

CONSIDER AND ANSWER the following: George Speer (Speer.pdf), in his essay “Detroit Industry: Art and Healing in the Body Politic,” discusses the complex organicist symbolism of this mural. How is the machine portrayed in symbolic terms? How do nature, technology, and the human body intersect in this fresco in novel way? And how does the Rivera mural portray human assembly-line labor? What is the relationship between the machine and the human body? Consider the larger political implications of Rivera’s position, as Speer presents it.