Beatrice Wood's Life has been extraordinary in every way, from earliest childhood, when her dominating Victorian mother realized she "wasn't like the rest of them," to her productive life at ninety-five in California's Ojiai Valley. Rebellious, radical and romantic, Beatrice Wood was determined to be an artist. 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. 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. Now one of America's acclaimed ceramicists, Beatrice Wood shares the intriguing details of her unconventional life in I Shock Myself. With candor and insight, she recollects nearly ten decades of world shaking events, heart breaking romances, and artistic achievement.
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Brilliant,..Funny..,Thoughtful...,Adventurious....Honest!,
This review is from: I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood (Paperback)
I am going to be honest and say what this autobiography meant to me.... Starting with her early days as an artist to an actress breaking from her mother's shell. To her associations with Duchamp,Roche,Varese,Reginald Pole,Krishnumarti and other well-known men. And it tells of the struggles she went through in paying the price to learn of life and her amazing stories in India,France..etc; were very interesting to read. I enjoyed her stories with the beloved Arensbergs' for they were very important in her life. Before this book I didn't have knowledge of most of the artists in her life. She has opened new doors! I laughed hysterically at her descriptions of her years with Pole and Steve.She is a riot!An amazing woman really. This book will remain with me forever and I will read it again and again. For someone like myself can't beleve there is so much adventure in life. She died this spring at 105,in her heart 32. I would have loved to meet her.All I can do now is remember her and try to learn more about her life and art. I loved her and she is an inspiration to all humanity with her marvelious statements on the facts of life.Afterall,she lived 105 years and paid the price. A definate book to add to a collection for any Beato fan or curious book reader!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Amusing, thoughtful and honest!,
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This review is from: I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood (Paperback)
As a potter, I'd hoped to learn more about her art. However,there were some gems to be found in the text. I really enjoyed the stories about several other famous people in her life. She is brutally honest in her opinions and I like that. On the downside... it was a bit too "socially conscious" in places, for my own taste. Overall, I enjoyed the book and will read more by her. I wrote a personal letter to her, regarding her book and she answered me promptly... twice! Great lady! Wonderful clay-artist! :-) An interesting read, for sure.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A Fabulous Life,
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This review is from: I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood (Paperback)
Being a potter and a Beato fan, I truly enjoyed the time I spent with this autobiography. I was fascinated by how her life unfolded from her relationships with those in art to her own creation of art. How her world which was largely centered around the men she knew, changed as she found herself in clay.I loved how this story unfolded and I was sad when it ended.
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New York, Los Angeles, Helen Freeman, Happy Valley School, Marcel Duchamp, Maud Allen, Walter Arensberg, Anais Nin, Red Cross, The Blind Man, United States, Annie Besant, Elizabeth Reynolds, Greenwich Village, Robert Logan, Elizabeth Hapgood, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gordon Craig, Madame de Nieuport, Native Americans, San Francisco, Theosophical Society, World War, Arya Vihara, Galka Scheyer New!
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New York, Los Angeles, Helen Freeman, Happy Valley School, Marcel Duchamp, Maud Allen, Walter Arensberg, Anais Nin, Red Cross, The Blind Man, United States, Annie Besant, Elizabeth Reynolds, Greenwich Village, Robert Logan, Elizabeth Hapgood, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gordon Craig, Madame de Nieuport, Native Americans, San Francisco, Theosophical Society, World War, Arya Vihara, Galka Scheyer New!
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- Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Francis M. Naumann in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Second World War (Knowing British history) (v. 10) by Steve L. Case on page 103
- The Secret Doctrine: (Three Volumes in a Slipcase) by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky on page 58
- The Betty Book by Stewart E. White on page 123
- England And India by Annie Besant on page 58
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- Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins on 5 pages
- The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture by Jerrold Seigel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit by Dalia Judovitz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Titanic (BFI Modern Classics) by David M. Lubin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mallarme's Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience by Richard Candida Smith in Back Matter
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