Primary Accumulation 3 (Henry Ford)
Hugo Gellert American, born Hungary
Not on view
Gellert aligned himself with the Communist Party in the 1920s and engaged radical politics throughout his career. He favored printmaking, illustration, and murals for their accessibility to the masses, creating works that center on the tenets of Marxism and celebrate the labor class. Primary Accumulation 3 is part of a portfolio illustrating Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. In the print, a muscular worker confronts an oversize caricature of Henry Ford—a representation of capitalism—who clutches onto a complex of industrial buildings.
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