About this title: Beatrice Woods' life was 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 in old age in California's Ojai Valley, where she lived and worked until her death in 1998 at the age of 105. Rebellious, radical and romantic, 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 French men: Henri-Pierre Roche, the author of Jules and Jim, and Marcel Duchamp, the ...
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dillingham Press
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780961607104ISBN:0961607106
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. book slightly warped from water damage, light stain first few pages (through acknowledgments), text clean, good binding. 181 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. With remainder mark on bottom edge and some small scrapes on cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 184 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. With remainder mark on bottom edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 184 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
Date Published: 2006-03-02
ISBN-13:9780811853613ISBN:0811853616
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780811853613. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780811853613ISBN:0811853616
Description: Fine. Size: 10.5 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches; Fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. read more
Edition: First Paperboud Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dillingham Press, Ojai, CA
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780961607111ISBN:0961607114
Description: Very Good. 4to, 10.5 " tall. Softcover. Slight edgewear to covers, spine has small horizontal crease & mild vertical crease. Binding tight. Book interior fine clean no marks. xv-181 pp, color frontispiece (by the author), b/w photos throughout. "Rebellious, radical and romantic, Beatrice Wood was determined to by an artist" and became an "acclaimed ceramicist. " Friendship & dealings with Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roche, Brancusi, Isadora Duncan, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anais Nin, Annie ... read more
Edition: 3rd Edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: San Francisco: Chronicle Books
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780877014980ISBN:0877014981
Description: Description: xv, 181 p. : ill.; 27 cm. Subjects: Wood, Beatrice. Potters--United States--Biography. Pottery, American--20th century. Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Ojai, CA: Dillingham Press, c1985. Includes index. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. 2. pp. 181. read more
Description: San Francisco 1988 Chronicle. Edited by Lindsay Smith. 4to. , 181pp. , photo illus. , wraps. California artist, actress and potter. VG. read more
"I love this book! I have read it twice--once to myself and once aloud to my husband. Fascinating story here and great history of Hollywood and also Ojai"
"She shocks herself, but she only shocks you if you are a granny. Still, I'm really enjoying this book. If only life were this simple now. Have a lot of money. See a lot of wonderful places. Be scandalized by men and modern art. Have poor judgment. Lose all your money. Take up pottery and Eastern Philosophy. Initially I found myself frustrated by Beatrice's foolish attachment to manipulative men, and her rather pretentious attitude toward art and artists. But given that this is an autobiography, one cannot expect too much accuracy. I imagine that, at the age of 92 (when she first wrote the book), one remembers the past selectively. As the book progressed through the 60's and 70's, Beatrice seemed to become more settled, with her recollections becoming more concrete, more philosophical and less disjointed.
"Pottery for me is not a pursuit of glory, but a daily discipline of pursuing accuracy. In India it would be called my dharma. Life is dual. There is matter and spirit and one cannot function completely without the other. For creativity, the spirit side, to work, the matter side must be strong enough to hold the spirit side. If the form has cracks, the spirit leaks."
Beatrice Wood lived to be 105, and it sounds like she was still actively pursuing her craft until the end. I was completely heartened to read that she did not even discover her "life's work" until she was 40, and her best-remembered and most unique style until she was 90.
"Only in action do we discover what is wrong or right. Edison, the great inventor of the electric bulb, when consoled on having made ten thousand experiments, replied the time had not been wasted, because he had learned what he did not want. If the sea offers no challenge the navigator cannot learn to sail."
I never would have read this book if Jennie and I hadn't done our 3-2-2-1 project; one of her random library books was this one, and it looked interesting enough for me to pursue it. Thanks, weird zine project!"
"A charming woman. A charming artist. A charmed life. She loved Duchamp; she loved life; she loved being alive...she deserved the century plus of creativity she enjoyed...and the planet should be very grateful she stayed around that long...check out a catalogue of the works...they are just sumptuous....but these memoirs are priceless...many of them are illustrated with her charming line drawings...i snagged some signed copies of her books since i adore her...i want to get out to Ojai one day...i hope they kept her studio intact....a hero....we don't need the word heroine...she's just a hero...how people will live a century from now she lived almost a century ago..."
"FIrstly, I totally forgot I had read this already. I remembered once I started reading it, and remembering that even though I liked it alright, she really isn't a very good writer. Secondly, it was interesting to get re-acquainted with her, as she is such a fabulous icon! EDIT: The second half of the book is much better written than the first half."
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