Woman Pissing by Elizabeth Cooperman (English) Paperback Book

Description: Woman Pissing by Elizabeth Cooperman Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty, while she reflects on her own life, grappling with questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography 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 Writers Chronicle, Seattle Review, 1913: A Journal of Forms, and other journals. She is the art director of PageBoy Magazine. Table of Contents Woman with Hat Head of a Man Head of a Woman Woman in the Studio Woman with Green Stockings Crouching Beggar Family of Saltimbanques Young Acrobat on a Ball At the Lapin Agile Parade Reclining Female Nude under a Pine Tree The Lovers The Absinthe Drinker Woman in Gray Woman in a Gray Armchair Head of a Hurdy-Gurdy The Blue Acrobat The Race Portrait of the Artists Mother Pregnant Woman Self-Portrait at Thirty-Six Dwarf Dancer Maya with Doll Portrait of Maya The FactoryMaternité Spring Nude in Red Stockings The BeastLa belle hollandaise Le compotier Nude in a Garden Butterfly Hunter Woman with Her Hair in a Bun Japanese Divan House in a Garden Interior Scene The Blue Room Woman with Outstretched ArmsTête de mort Still Life with Steers Skull She-Goat SweetsLa cuisine Nude with Drapery Kids Little SunTête Woman with Jewels Watermelon EatersMa jolie Girl before a Mirror Self-PortraitYo Woman with a Large Hat The Artist before His Canvas Aiming the Deathblow Woman with Pears Woman Washing Her Feet The Fool Woman beneath the Lamp Smoke Clouds at Vallauris The Pigeon with Green Peas ContemplationCabinet particulier Bird with WormCannibale The Sigh Woman with a Crow Two Old People Birds in a Cage Woman Squatting with Child The Old Blind Mans Meal Seated Old Man Woman in a Hat with Pom-Poms and a Printed Blouse Woman with a Bonnet Nude with Dripping Hair Woman Pissing Blue Nude Still Life with Skull Death of Nature Last Moments Lobster and Cat Woman Seated in a Garden Woman in a ShawlLa joie de vivre (Pastorale) Still Life with Fruit Waiting Woman Reading Woman Throwing a Stone Woman at the Window Acknowledgments Appendix: Discarded Epigraphs Voices Review "This is a fiercely feminist book in the best sense, carving out a space for a female intelligence and decimating certain kinds of male productivity/surety. Cooperman has found her own form and managed to create a remarkable book—howlingly sad, oddly joyous, and persuasively devoted to a wayward/outsider/termite definition of art."—David Shields"An engaging and distinctive read, Woman Pissing challenges, provokes, and inspires. . . . Woman Pissing refuses to give way to conventional narrative, charts its own path, and evidences the instinctual effort and devotion of a writer keenly aware of just how thin the membrane between art and life can truly be."—Jericho Parms, author of Lost Wax"A book about the effort to write it, Woman Pissing is a living thing. Cooperman makes art of the effort to make art and manages, in that process, to make art—of art itself. The product is not final but a record of the process—pure pleasure for the reader."—Kary Wayson, author of The Slip Review Quote "This is a fiercely feminist book in the best sense, carving out a space for a female intelligence and decimating certain kinds of male productivity/surety. Cooperman has found her own form and managed to create a remarkable book--howlingly sad, oddly joyous, and persuasively devoted to a wayward/outsider/termite definition of art."--David Shields Excerpt from Book Woman with Hat My friend Vedika, a zany painter in her sixties, told me that when she was young, she tore up all the quotes from writers she used to love and vowed to follow her own wisdom. Dont listen to those preachers cause theyre just mammals like you, she said. Ive come to realize that Im too susceptible to everyone elses philosophies, which is why I doubt my own wisdom, which is why I found Vedikas story, too, so attractive. Good writing seems to come from good taste. Sometimes I think thats all there is to it. So many people I know, especially artists, luxuriate in the finicky nature of their taste. They enjoy their response to stimuli and trust that response. But I have never understood (possessed) taste--in music, in wine, in clothes, in home decorating. Even a child, whether she loves abba or clarinet, seems more confident in her aesthetic. I had hoped to invent a literary form that could accommodate ambivalence, hesitation, crippling self-doubt, lack of any sense of the way forward. Idea: compose the whole book as a showcase of my attempts to write the first paragraph of the book. (Someone has probably used that trick before.) The Artist recommends a book of essays. He found it slow, boring, and nebulous--says, I think youd like it. When I was an infant, my mom took me to the doctor to report a sinus infection. She doesnt have sinuses yet, said the doctor. When my mom brought me back, the doctor looked again and admitted her mistake--that indeed I had full-blown sinusitis. My mom theorizes this may have wrecked my sense of smell, and I wonder now if (along with smell) taste, desire, and aversion also flew out the window--if this mishap accounts for my artistic problems. Im always reinventing myself, says the Artist, and I dont think you are. He says to captivate him Id have to wear a different hat every day. Details ISBN1496231449 Author Elizabeth Cooperman Publisher University of Nebraska Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1496231449 ISBN-13 9781496231444 Format Paperback Imprint University of Nebraska Press Place of Publication Lincoln Country of Publication United States Illustrations 9 illustrations, 1 appendix Pages 192 Publication Date 2022-09-01 AU Release Date 2022-09-01 NZ Release Date 2022-09-01 US Release Date 2022-09-01 UK Release Date 2022-09-01 DEWEY 700.922 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159610479;

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