"Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art" features a 1937 Cord 812 Supercharged "Sportsman" Cabriolet Coupe.(Nathan Hunsinger / Staff Photographer) Influenced by rapid technological ...

The show is an overview of precisionism, the modern American movement that fetishized factories, ball bearings, silos and skyscrapers in an attempt to merge American realism with European abstraction.

"Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art," which runs through Jan. 6, focuses on the interwar years of the 1920s and 30s, when America transformed itself into a modern industrial giant.

Precisionism in contrast, like the seminal punk rock album ‘Never Mind the Bollocks: Here’s the Sex Pistols’ tells us to disrupt long-held beliefs and open our mind to something new.

San Francisco’s de Young Museum is surveying these artists, this era between the two World Wars, in the exhibit “Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art” through Aug. 12.

Precisionism is an early 20th century American modernist style that was born from artists who synthesized European cubism and futurism with the American vision of industrial, urban themes.

Season after season, Janice Henry looks out the front window of her house and see's Flint's Truck and Bus Factory. It's a sight she's seen countless times, but one that has taken on a new meaning ...