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'''Beatrice Wood''' ([[March 3]], [[1893]] – [[March 12]], [[1998]]) was an American artist and [[Ceramics (art) |ceramist]], who late in life was dubbed the "Mama of Dada," and served as a partial inspiration for the character of [[Rose DeWitt Bukater]] in [[James Cameron]]'s 1997 film, ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]''. Beatrice Wood died nine days after her 105th birthday in Ojai, California.

Cover = Dirt_shoulders-lying_from_you.jpg |

Artist = [[Linnkin Park]] & [[Jay-Z]] |

Album = [[Collision Course]] |

Format = [[Compact disc|CD]] |

Recorded = 2004 |

Released = 2005/2006 |

Genre = [[Rapcore]] |

Length = 4:04 |

Label = [[Warner Bros. Records]] / [[Roc-a-Fella Records|Roca-a-Fella]] |

Producer = [[Mike Shinoda]]/[[Jay-Z]] |

Chart position = |

Reviews = |

| Chronology = Jay-Z singles

| Last single = "[[Numb/Encore]]"<br />(2004)

| This single = "'''Dirt off Your Shoulder/Lying from You'''"<br>(2005/2006)

| Next single = "[[Show Me What You Got]]"<br >(2006)

| Misc = {{Extra chronology

| Artist = Linkin Park singles

| Last single = "[[Numb/Encore]]"<br />(December 2004)

| This single = "'''Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You'''"<br />(2005/2006)

| Next single = "[[What I've Done]]"<br />(April 2007)

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"'''Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying from You'''" is the second single by the rapper [[Jay-Z]] and [[nu metal]], [[alternative rock]]/[[alternative metal|metal]] band [[Linkin Park]]. It is taken from their 2004 mash-up album ''[[Collision Course]]''. The single was released in the next year at the beginning of 2005, then was rereleased in 2006 as well worldwide and was released in 2006 for the video. It is a mash-up of the Jay-Z song "[[Dirt Off Your Shoulder]]" (taken from his 2003 album ''[[The Black Album (Jay-Z album)|The Black Album]]'') and the Linkin Park song "[[Lying from You]]" (taken from their 2003 album ''[[Meteora (album)|Meteora]]''). In the very beginning of the song there is a recording of Linkin Park lead vocalist Chester Bennington saying "I ordered a [[frappuccino]], where's my fucking frappuccino?" [[Mike Shinoda]] kept this and other jokes in the recordings to show the friendly atmosphere of the recording session.

==Childhood==

[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1491889/20041028/story.jhtml]

Beatrice Wood was born in [[San Francisco, California]], the daughter of wealthy socialites. Despite her parents' strong opposition, Wood rebelliously insisted on pursuing a career in the arts. Eventually her parents agreed to let her study painting and because she was fluent in French, they sent her to the prestigious [[Académie Julian]] in [[Paris, France]].

This single was played on July 2nd, 2005 at the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.

==See also==

The onset of [[World War I]] forced Wood to return to the United States. She she soon became an actress with a French Repertory Company in [[New York City]] and would spend a number of years on the stage [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=65521]. This led to her involvement with a group of individuals who had a profound effect on her and on the artistic community.

*[[List of Jay-Z songs]]

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==[[Dada]] and the [[Avant-garde]]==

During this time period, Wood was introduced to [[Marcel Duchamp]], who in turn introduced her to her first great love interest, [[Henri-Pierre Roché]], a man twice her age. She worked with Duchamp and Roché in the 1910s to create ''The Blind Man,'' a magazine that was one of the earliest manifestations of the [[Dada]] art movement in New York City.

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===Roché, Duchamp, and ''[[Jules et Jim]]''===

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Though she was involved with Roché, the two would often spend time with Duchamp, creating a love triangle. Biographies of Wood traditionally link Roché's novel (and the consequent film), ''[[Jules et Jim]]'', with the relationship between Duchamp, Wood, and himself [http://helfenfinearts.com/biogs/woodFset.html], [http://www.potters.org/subject12843.htm]. Other sources link their triangle to Roché's unfinished novel, ''Victor'', and ''Jules et Jim'' with the triangle between Roché, Franz Hessel and Helen Hessel [http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/23/julesjim.html]. Beatrice Wood commented on this topic on p. 136 of her 1985 autobiography, ''I Shock Myself'':

:''Roché lived in Paris with his wife Denise, and had by now written Jules et Jim...Because the story concerns two young men who are close friends and a woman who loves them both, people have wondered how much was based on Roché, Marcel, and me. I cannot say what memories or episodes inspired Roché, but the characters bare only passing resemblance to those of us in real life!''

===The Arensburgs and their circle===

Wood was next introduced to the art patrons, [[Walter Arensberg |Walter and Louise Arensberg]] (who would become her lifelong friends). They held regular gatherings in which artists, writers, and poets were invited for intellectual discussion. Besides herself, Duchamp, and Roché, the group included [[Man Ray]] and [[Francis Picabia]]. Beatrice Wood's relationship with them and others associated with the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, earned her the designation "Mama of Dada."

==[[Ojai, California]]==

After a succession of failed artistic careers (most notably as an actress) and an annulled marriage, Beatrice moved back to Los Angeles, California. While living there she had bought a pair of baroque plates with a luster glaze. She tried to find the perfectly matching teapot to go along with it, but was unsuccesful, so she simply decided to make one. She got enrolled in a ceramic class in the Hollywood High School. This hobby turned into a passion that would last over sixty years, as she developed a unique form of luster-glaze technique that proved successful.

In 1947, Beatrice felt that her career was established enough for her to build a home. She settled in [[Ojai, California]] in 1948 to be near the Indian sage [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]] and became a life long member of the [[Theosophical Society Adyar|Theosophical Society - Adyar]], events which would greatly influence her artistic philosophies. Ever the comedienne, when asked the secret to her incredible longevity, she would respond, "I owe it all to chocolate and young men."

In 1994, the [[Smithsonian Institution]] named Wood an "Esteemed American Artist."

==Works==

''Books'':

* ''[[I Shock Myself: The autobiography of Beatrice Wood]]'' (1985)

==Films inspired by Wood==

*''[[Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada]]'': This documentary was released as a 16 mm film in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]] on March 3, 1993, to coincide with Wood's 100th birthday.

*''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'': Wood found a new audience when she was 104. She served as a partial inspiration for the 101-year-old character of "Rose" in [[James Cameron]]'s epic 1997 film, ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]''. In ''Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay'', Cameron notes that [[Bill Paxton]]'s wife loaned a copy of ''I Shock Myself'' to him. He realized upon reading it that "the first chapter describes almost literally the character I was already writing for 'Old Rose'...When I met her she was charming, creative and devastatingly funny...Of course, the film's Rose is only a refraction of Beatrice, combined with many fictional elements" (overleaf for page 7). According to her obituary in the ''Ojai Valley News,'' six days before her death on March 12, 1998, Wood awarded the ''Fifth Annual Beatrice Wood Film Award'' to Cameron [http://www.laweekly.com/film/2959/beatrice-and-hubert/].

==Obituaries==

*[http://www.craftsreport.com/may98/beatricewood.html Beatrice Wood Dies at age 105] - ''Craftsreport''

*[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19980319/ai_n14147323/print Obituary: Beatrice Wood] - ''[[The Independent]]''

*[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1001486 NPR: Beatrice Wood Obit] - ''[[National Public Radio]]''

*MacNeill, Bonnie. "Mama of Dada Beatrice Wood dies at 105." ''The Ojai Valley News.'' (Issue 44, Friday, March 13, 1998, p. A-1).

==References==

*Cameron, James. ''Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay.'' New York, Harper: 1998.

*Laskas, Jeanne Marie. "Beatrice Wood: Breaking the Mold". In ''We Remember: Women Born at the Turn of the Century Tell the Stories of Their Lives in Words and Pictures.'' New York: William Morrow and Co., 1999.

==External links==

''Biographies'':

*[http://www.beatricewood.com/biography.html Biography from Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts]

*[http://www.philamuseum.org/pma_archives/ead.php?c=BWC&p=hn Biography from the Philadelphia Museum of Art]

*[http://www.beatricewoodart.com/biography.html Biography from beatricewoodart.com]

''Articles'':

* ''[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n1_v86/ai_20148112/print Letter to Beatrice Wood]''

* ''[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n9_v81/ai_14410639/print Beatrice Wood at Garth Clark - ceramics exhibition; New York, New York]''

*[http://www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/wood76.htm 1976 interview]

*[http://tarrow-carduner.net/Dissatisfaction-DT-PartC.htm "Women's Dissatisfaction--Can It Be Beautiful?" A discussion of Beatrice Wood as woman and artist by Devorah Tarrow]

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