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Rockefeller Center in mid-town Manhattan has a number of heroic giant statues, often of an allegorically progressive nature.
Rockefeller Center’s artworks couldn’t be too far left the oil capitalist family canceled Diego Rivera’s mural of Lenin and Marx and replaced it by Jose Maria Sert’s
For example, there’s the
Progress carving above the 49th Street entrance. And the
And there’s the 18-foot tall
Prometheus, right, stealing fire from Zeus and the other reactionary gods to allow mankind to progress to civilization. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1818
Prometheus Unbound cemented the standing of Prometheus as the hero of radicals and progressives.