Woman Pissing - Couverture souple

Cooperman, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496231449 ISBN 13 : 9781496231444

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496231449
• ISBN 13: 9781496231444
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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