Woman Pissing

Elizabeth Cooperman's Woman Pissing is a literary collage that celebrates artists who have struggled with self-doubt and uncertainty, while also grappling with the author's own questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood. The book consists of roughly one hundred short prose "paintings" that converge around questions of creativity and fecundity, building a larger metaphor about creativity and the concerns of artistry and motherhood. Cooperman proposes that these methods might be antidotes to the aggressive bravura and Picassian overconfidence of ego-driven art.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 05 August 2022
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Elizabeth Cooperman's literary collage Woman Pissing, named after a raunchy Picasso painting, celebrates artists, particularly twentieth-century women artists, who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty. 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. The book 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. Cooperman 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.

Weight: 300g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781496231444