I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood

'Doppel' is a companion story to "Sekret, " her first novel, which will be on sale in April. . About the Author Lindsay Smith's love of Russian culture has taken her to Moscow, St. She writes on foreign affairs and lives in Washington, D.C. Petersburg, and a reindeer festival in the middle of Siberia

She writes on foreign affairs and lives in Washington, D.C. Petersburg, and a reindeer festival in the middle of Siberia. . Lindsay Smith's love of Russian culture has taken her to Moscow, St. 'Doppel' is a companion story to "Sekret, " her first novel, which will be on sale in April

There are few stories about women who step out of the roles dictated to them by tradition and culture. There are few stories about women who step out of the roles dictated to them by tradition and culture. Beatrice had an open mind and heart that guided her every choice, even making bad decisions that as time went on, were less wrong and more about being teaching her to wake up and be at attention. To be a woman in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s has always been painted as a lifetime of restriction, modesty, austerity, and dependency. Adventurous spirit of a great ceramicist Aubrey Balkind A wonderful, yet not well known piece of cultural and philosophical history, written by a brave and adventurous woman. The setting is New York, Europe, India and mostly Ojai, a beautiful and spiritual valley 90 miles north of Los Angeles that reminds me of Tuscany. Beatrice's long life intersects many famous philosophers like Annie Besant, Krishnamurti and Huxley and artists like Duchamp and Klee some of whom she knew intimately.. Suzin R. Daly said Five Stars. This is a wonderful boo, a page turner. I could not put it down.

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. 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.. 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