I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0877014981 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rebellious, radical and romantic, Beatrice Wood was determined to be an artist. Her promising youth was followed by a disastrous marriage, financial woes and a debilitating physical affliction; but in 1933, at the age of forty, she discovered the passion that would change her life: pottery. She fled to Paris for several bohemian seasons as a painter and actress, then returned to New York where she fell into the loving clutches of two Frenchmen: Henri-Pierre Roche, the author of Jules and Jim, and Marcel Duchamp, the iconoclastic Dadaist. Now one of America's acclaimed ceramicists, Beatrice Wood shares the intriguing deta
. 'Doppel' is a companion story to "Sekret, " her first novel, which will be on sale in April. She writes on foreign affairs and lives in Washington, D.C. Petersburg, and a reindeer festival in the middle of Siberia. Lindsay Smith's love of Russian culture has taken her to Moscow, St
Petersburg, and a reindeer festival in the middle of Siberia. She writes on foreign affairs and lives in Washington, D.C. 'Doppel' is a companion story to "Sekret, " her first novel, which will be on sale in April. . About the Author Lindsay Smith's love of Russian culture has taken her to Moscow, St
Kimberly Krause Berg said There are few stories about women who step out of the roles dictated to them by tradition and culture.. There are few stories about women who step out of the roles dictated to them by tradition and culture. Beatrice had an open mind and heart that guided her every choice, even making bad decisions that as time went on, were less wrong and more about being teaching her to wake up and be at attention. To be a woman in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s has always been painted as a lifetime of restriction, modesty, austerity, and dependency. It was a time where America was either at war or developing new technologies that would change the. Adventurous spirit of a great ceramicist Aubrey Balkind A wonderful, yet not well known piece of cultural and philosophical history, written by a brave and adventurous woman. The setting is New York, Europe, India and mostly Ojai, a beautiful and spiritual valley 90 miles north of Los Angeles that reminds me of Tuscany. Beatrice's long life intersects many famous philosophers like Annie Besant, Krishnamurti and Huxley and artists like Duchamp and Klee some of whom she knew intimately.. Five Stars This is a wonderful boo, a page turner. I could not put it down.