5/21/2023 0 Comments I shock myself by beatrice wood![]() Rebellious, radical, and romantic, Wood (1893-1998) defied propriety to become a true national, and international, treasure. With candor and insight, she recollects nearly ten decades of world shaking events, heart breaking romances, and artistic achievement. In her own charming, spirited, and readable style, Beatrice Wood tells us the story of her unorthodox life and her influence on 20th-century art. Now one of Americas acclaimed ceramicists, Beatrice Wood shares the intriguing details of her unconventional life in I Shock Myself. 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. Rebellious, radical and romantic, Beatrice Wood was determined to be an artist. I dont recall where I got the nudge to purchase Beatrice Woods autobiography, I Shock Myself, but once starting to read the book, I feel unfortunate I. ![]() Beatrice Woods Life has been extraordinary in every way, from earliest childhood, when her dominating Victorian mother realized she wasnt like the rest of them, to her productive life at ninety-five in Californias Ojiai Valley. ![]()
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