At the Heart of Progress
Coal, Iron, and Steam Since 1750

Explores the ways that artists have looked at the world that was created by heavy industry over more than two centuries. This title offers a discussion of twenty-nine key prints and traces the growth and transformation of heavy industry in Britain, France, and America.

"At the Heart of Progress" shows how artists confronted the new industrial structures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and then focuses on the artistic representation of the industrial environment and the portrayal of the worker in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as the industrial landscape engulfed whole tracts of countryside and a new society of industrial laborers developed.