Download or read book Rookwood, an American Art written by Rookwood Pottery and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rookwood, an American Art "Our definition of a work of art as something beautiful, skillfully made to give pleasure, applies as truly to, the artistic industries as it does to the Fine Arts. It is not enough that the thing should seem beautiful to the maker; there must be a corresponding perceptive faculty in the person or class for whom it is made." "Between the artists' land and the world of every-day life hangs many a spangled rainbow bridge. He that can traverse the intervening gulf will assuredly find his way to the realm where all the poets and painters and musicians have dwelt, and where they have beheld the glimpses of beauty, which, though perhaps but dimly remembered and indistinctly embodied in their works, have become the priceless possessions of the human race." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.