Download or read book Rookwood, an American Art (Classic Reprint) written by Rookwood Pottery and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rookwood, an American Art In 1883 Mr. William Watts Taylor assumed active direction of the works; in 1890 Mrs. Storer transferred to him her interest and he formed a company to develop and perpetuate what she had started. As Rookwood Was not imitating other wares, but starting as a pioneer along new lines, it had to Work out its own processes and its own style. Instead of importing foreign decorators with fixed methods Rookwood gathered to itself a staff of American artists and bravely set out to solve its own problems. These artists year after year progressed in mastering the new decorative medium, making their own technique and working out 'styles so individual that signatures upon the pieces are hardly needed to identify them. From its foundation to the present time Rookwood has kept itself free from those commercial influences which are destructive to artistic qualities Its workers have depended upon their own initiative and originality of invention. Thus Rookwood has grown into a highly organized community of workers, to which it supplies the most advanced resources of a very complicated craft. It does this as a means to the freest expression of individual artists who associate themselves with it and whose signatures appear upon its productions. 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.