Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 – March 12, 1998) was an American player and studio potter dynamic in the Avant Garde action in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City as soon as French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1917. She had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was full of life in New York as an actress. She highly developed worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the "Mama of Dada".

She partially inspired the vibes of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic after the director retrieve Wood's autobiography even if developing the film. Beatrice Wood died nine days after her 105th birthday in Ojai, California.

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