Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Life and Art of Beatrice Wood

by Garth Clark

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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.
  • ISBN10 1893164136
  • ISBN13 9781893164130
  • Publish Date 1 October 2001
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 October 2009
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher F&W Publications Inc
  • Imprint North Light Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 128
  • Language English