<p>Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century's wittiest writers and most original artists, Beatrice Wood at the age of 100 is as energetic, graceful, and inspiring as ever. In a series of duotone portraits made during the last 18 years, Wood's longtime friend, photographer Marlene Wallace, has captured with sensitivity and elegance the essence of this remarkable woman. Including Beatrice Wood's mischievious and penetrating insights into everything from politics to the mysteries of love, Playing Chess with the Heart is a touching tribute to the imagination and open mind of an extraordinary creative spirit.</p>

Playing Chess With the Heart: Beatrice Wood at 100

Beatrice Wood

Arts & Photography

Chronicle Books+

<p>Beatrice Woods' life was 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 in old age in California's Ojai Valley, where she lived and worked until her death in 1998 at the age of 105. Rebellious, radical and romantic, 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 French men: Henri-Pierre Roche, the author of Jules and Jim, and Marcel Duchamp, the iconoclastic Dadaist. 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. 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. She gives us rare glimpses into the lives of such significant innovators as Duchamp, Roche, Constantin Brancusi, Isadora Duncan, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anais Nin and many others. She recalls the early days with Theosophist Annie Besant and the young sage Nytyananda Krishnamurti. Above all, it is the mystery of love, sex and romance that intrigues Beatrice Wood and fires the her imagination.</p>

I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood

Individual Artists

Dillingham Press

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Playing Chess With the Heart: Beatrice Wood at 100

I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood