335 pages, 9.75 x 7.5 in, hardcover.
By Nancy E. Owen.
Ohio University Press, 2001
Rookwood and the Industry of Art: Women, Culture, and Commerce, 1880-1913 is a critical appreciation of Rookwood’s rise to its commercial pinnacle, assessing the labor practices and production of ceramic ware as a way to explore anxiety about women’s roles outside the home as well as about industrialization, immigration, and urbanization.