Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Life and Art of Beatrice Wood Review

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Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Life and Art of Beatrice Wood ReviewAs a biography of Beatrice Wood's life and work, this volume is both interesting and well written. And Wood's glazes are unique in many cases, but the quality of her pottery itself (the thrown pieces) is simply sub-par!
I notice that the author commented about a time in Wood's life when she worked as an apprentice to Otto and Gertrud Natzler, and that they apparently asked her to leave, because she was becoming competitive with them. This is hard to believe, because Ms. Wood's clay work (the design and execution of the ceramic pieces themselves) is just not of that high a quality. She was clearly not "competitive" with Gertrud Natzler's clay work, nor was she competitive with Otto Natzler's glaze skills.Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Life and Art of Beatrice Wood OverviewBeatrice 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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