Beatrice Wood turned to ceramics late in life at age 40, but still managed to work behind a potter's wheel for nearly 65 years. Influenced by the Dada movement, her lusterware pottery, with its rich and decadent palette of shimmering gold and silver, vindian greens, incandescent pinks, and intense purples, has captivated generations of collectors. Gilded Vessel is not so much a biography as a celebration of the life and ceramic artistry of Beatrice Wood. Glorious color pictures reveal the iridescent beauty of her pottery, while black-and-white photographs document the life, loves and luster, of a woman New York Times Magazine hailed as one of the great lives of the 20th century.
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Garth Clark a historian and patron of the arts, has written more than 20 books. His 18-year friendship with Beatrice Wood began in 1980, when he interviewed her for his American Potters: Twelve Modern Masters. His Los Angeles gallery hosted dozens of exhibitions of Wood's ceramic art between 1981 and her death, at 105, in 1998.
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A Truly Beautiful Life,
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This review is from: Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Life and Art of Beatrice Wood (Hardcover)
THE GILTED VESSEL is a beautiful book about an amazing woman and potter. Her life is more wonderful than any fiction and her pottery is exquisite. The only flaw is that it is too short; I want more.
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This is an excellent biography but there is one problem...,
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As a biography of Beatrice Wood's life and work, this volume is both interesting and well written. And Wood's glazes are unique in many cases, but the quality of her pottery itself (the thrown pieces) is simply sub-par!
I notice that the author commented about a time in Wood's life when she worked as an apprentice to Otto and Gertrud Natzler, and that they apparently asked her to leave, because she was becoming competitive with them. This is hard to believe, because Ms. Wood's clay work (the design and execution of the ceramic pieces themselves) is just not of that high a quality. She was clearly not "competitive" with Gertrud Natzler's clay work, nor was she competitive with Otto Natzler's glaze skills.
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A Wonderful Gift,
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I bought this for a very good friend of mine and she just loves the book. She met Beatrice once as both of us lived in Ojai, CA where Beatrice lived for many years. We have been to her house also. My friend just loved her and her particular style of art.
Sincerely, Terry W. Chaffee
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