Charles Sheeler was the stark poet of the machine age. Photographer of the Ford Motor Company and founder of the painting movement Precisionism, he is remembered as a promoter of - and apologist for - the industrialised capitalist ethic.

Lecturer in Art History at the University of Nottingham

1 Musing on Primitiveness 2 A Photograph, a Drawing and a Painting: Sheeler's New York Series 3 The Disappearing Subject: Self-Portrait 4 Is it Still Life? Sheeler, Adorno and Dwelling 5 Between Commission and Autonomy: Sheeler's River Rouge 6 Late Work/Late Style