The Book of Cups

by Garth Clark

Book Overview

From that plastic Mickey Mouse cup you bought at Disneyland to the antique Worcester china cup that your Aunt Nelly gave you as a wedding gift, everyone holds a special cup in their heart. Garth... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558590684
• ISBN13: 9781558590687
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Artists' interpretations of an everyday object

This charming little book is not a dry collectors' manual of fine china. Rather, it is a brief overview of cups in history, with a special emphasis on 20th-century and contemporary fine artists' interpretations. Also included are humorous, kitschy flea-market finds, and other irreverent examples. Definitely the art lover's cup of tea!

to the brim please

a great example of variations on a theme being the root of human creativity... not a book of rich people's china but an ecclectic picture book of the potter's art, commercial and yes some fine china... as a potter I find it a delight