![]() ![]() Much local California/Los Angeles history, which I love, as we see her setting up shop in one of the earliest outdoor 'malls', Hollywood's Crossroads of the World, selling to Bullocks Wilshire and other posh department stores but having to be instructed as to what an invoice was, her path crossing with influential Theosophist Annie Besant and breakaway Krishnamurti, also her disastrous marriages to men she was not in the least attracted to, and disastrous romances with men she was-the only successes were in rich and varied friendships with people like the collectors Walter and Louise Arensberg, who brought Modern art to America. ![]() ![]() Enjoyed this very much, though iconic California ceramicist Beatrice Wood is not really a writer, but the story she tells, of her early life, the headstrong daughter of a socialite San Francisco family who becomes an artist and an actress, battling a domineering mother, getting involved through the luck of the draw with the dadaist artists Duchamp and Picabia, the writer Roche, whose Jules et Jim many believe to have been partially based on their love affair. ![]()
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