Entre la técnica y las materias primas. Sobre Detroit´s Rivera. The Labor of Public Art de Julio Ramos

Abstract

This article analyzes the short documentary directed by Julio Ramos about the industrial murals that Diego Rivera painted in Detroit at the beginning of the thirties. We focus on two elements of this documentary work: on the one hand in Rivera's pictorial survey of both rubber, the raw material of the Fordist production model, and the role of the medical industry in its relationship with the world of work. And, on the other hand, we emphasize the work from the assembly method that Ramos uses as a fundamental tool for his exhibition purposes.