ABSTRACT
William Burton was a well-known potter, Chairman of the Joint Committee of Pottery Manufacturers of Great Britain, and a partner in the Pilkington Tile Works. Potters may learn much from this excellent address on the advantages of special training for designers of machine-made goods. In the Middle Ages the painter or sculptor generally served a real and rigorous apprenticeship as goldsmith, carver, metal worker, or what not before he became a painter, so that he had a real and not a fancied acquaintance with the tools and materials for which he afterwards produced designs. The address is a careful examination of the subject with the view to ascertain the reason for this disappointment’. The history of Art shows the reader cycles in the life of a nation or a race when Art flourished in all the current modes of expression because it was the outcome of the desire for beauty on the part of a people.
