What we do have, thanks to Horbury, is this fascinating memoir.Ĭooper was first a potter. In Making Emmanuel Cooper: Life and Work from his Memoirs, Letters, Diaries and Interviews, edited by his longtime partner David Horbury, we learn that in his last days – he died in 2012 of prostate cancer at the age of 74 – Cooper was thinking of such projects as a biography of Hans Coper, this memoir, and was “fired” about writing a book on Josiah Wedgewood “from a maker’s perspective.” Oh, how I would love to read the Wedgewood book. And then, his last book, his opus, the thoughtful biography, Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter. I have his very early Handbook on Pottery Making and of course his biography on Bernard Leach. I have read and re-read the various editions of his book on ceramic history, culminating with the magnificently illustrated tour de force, 10,000 Years of Pottery. I think I have more books by Emmanuel Cooper in my ceramic book collection than by any other writer on pottery.
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