The Industrial Revolution introduced new machines, new industries and new jobs...even for children. Before the Industrial Revolution craftspeople made things in their own homes or in small workshops.

Monet, in committing his life to his perception, made art something new, liberating painting from its descriptive function and lending it an interiority that would come to be called modern.

selling as an art and science has made little or no progress since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Today, as then, “representatives” attempt by various occult devices to persuade ...