With candor and insight, she recollects nearly ten decades of world shaking events, heart breaking romances, and artistic achievement. Now one of America's acclaimed ceramicists, Beatrice Wood shares the intriguing details of her unconventional life in I Shock Myself. 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.

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. Rebellious, radical and romantic, Beatrice Wood was determined to be an artist. Beatrice Wood (Author) 31 ratings Kindle 15.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 19.99 15 Used from 9.70 11 New from 14.32 In her own charming, spirited, and readable style, Beatrice Wood tells us the story of her unorthodox life and her influence on 20th-century art. Keywords : HISTORY OF MEDICINE, Blalock, Alfred (1899-1964).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.

The book should be important to those interested in medical research, medical history and American social history. Rebellious, radical, and romantic, Wood (18931998) defied propriety to become a true national, and international, treasure. In her own charming, spirited, and readable style, Beatrice Wood tells us the story of her unorthodox life and her influence on 20th-century art. Beard, Thomas remained Blalock's principal technician and laboratory chief. 19.99 15 Used from 9.70 11 New from 14.32. Instructed in laboratory techniques by Blalock and Joseph W. The book is fanally an account of Alfred Blalock's discoveries and contributions and of his methods of training surgeons. The story of the evaluation of the highly succesful collaboration of Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) and Thomas is skillfully woven into the account of their professional lives. Thomas' book, the autobiography of a talented high-school graduate from a black community who became a member of one of the most prestigous medical schools, the Johns Hopkins University, in the nation, is a classic account of laboratory investigation in this era. Philadelphia : University of Philadelphia Press,1985.

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