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The Book of Cups

by Garth Clark

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This volume offers us a visual feast of the world's favourite drinking vessel, so central to our every day life, from humorous and surprising designs to the more elegant models.
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This book is heavily illustrated. The chief focus is the collection of Betty Asher. The cups and related images sometimes date back as far as 550 BC., but most are from the 20th century.

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Foreward................. 6
The Book of Cups........17
Acknowledgements......92
Index...........................94

From the The Book of Cups, back jacket flap (1990): "Garth Clark is the author of fourteen books and over 100 essays, catalogues and monographs on ceramic art. ... He has received numerous awards, including the Arts Critics Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1980). He currently directs the Ceramic Arts Foundation and, together with Mark Del Vecchio, a gallery for ceramic art in New York City.

From the The Book of Cups, back jacket flap (1990): "Tony Cunha is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work includes both commerical and art photography. He was edlucated at the Art Center College of Design in California, and his images have been published in art, architecture, and interior design magazines in the United States and Europe."

From the The Book of Cups, foreword (1990): Betty Asher has been acquiring cups from 1960. She considers the cup to be an image, not merely the conventional three-dimensional object and her collection includes postcards, refridgerator magnets, jewelry, clothing, artworks, etc. The collection focuses on 20th century pieces. Eighty-six of her cups are on permanent display at the Robert O. Anderson wing of the Los Angeles County Museum. For thirteen years, ending in 1979, she worked as the assistant to Maurice Tuchman, curator of modern art at the Museum, leaving to open the Asher/Faure Gallery in Los Angeles with Patty Faure. ( )
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