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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth CoopermanPublish date:2022-09-01Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496231444ISBN-10:1496231449UPC:9781496231444Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Women, Artists, Architects, PhotographersSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCT2F3NVJY
When we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in Woman Pissing, a literary collage that takes its title from a raunchy Picasso painting, Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists--particularly twentieth-century women artists--who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty. At the same time, Cooperman grapples with her own questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood, considering her decade-long struggle to finish writing her own book and realizing that she has failed to perform one of the most fundamental creative acts--bearing a child.

Woman Pissing is composed of roughly one hundred short prose "paintings" that converge around questions of creativity and fecundity. As the book unfolds it builds a larger metaphor about creativity, and the concerns of artistry and motherhood begin to entwine. The author comes to terms with self-doubt, inefficiency, frustration, and a nonlinear, circuitous process and proposes that these methods might be antidotes to the aggressive bravura and Picassian overconfidence of ego-driven art.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496231444ISBN-10:1496231449UPC:9781496231444Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Women, Artists, Architects, PhotographersSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCT2F3NVJY
Elizabeth Cooperman is coeditor (with David Shields) of the anthology Life Is Short--Art Is Shorter and coauthor (with Thomas Walton) of The Last Mosaic. Her work has appeared in Writer's Chronicle, Seattle Review, 1913: A Journal of Forms, and other journals. She is the art director of PageBoy Magazine.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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