Gilded Vessel
The Lustrous Life and Art of Beatrice Wood
Garth Clark(Author)
North Light Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2001
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-893164-13-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Ohio
United States
Publishing group
F&W Publications Inc
Illustrations
50 colour and 50 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 235 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-893164-13-0 (9781893164130)
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Person
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.