Title: This is an excellent biography but there is one problem...
Product review: As 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.
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