- 154 pages
- English
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Woman Pissing
About This Book
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 artistsâparticularly twentieth-century women artistsâwho 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 actsâbearing 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Illustrations
- 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 Artistâs Mother
- Pregnant Woman
- Self-Portrait at Thirty-Six
- Dwarf Dancer
- Maya with Doll
- Portrait of Maya
- The Factory
- Maternité
- Spring
- Nude in Red Stockings
- The Beast
- La 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 Arms
- TĂȘte de mort
- Still Life with Steerâs Skull
- She-Goat
- Sweets
- La cuisine
- Nude with Drapery
- Kids
- Little Sun
- TĂȘte
- Woman with Jewels
- Watermelon Eaters
- Ma jolie
- Girl before a Mirror
- Self-Portrait
- Yo
- 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
- Contemplation
- Cabinet particulier
- Bird with Worm
- Cannibale
- The Sigh
- Woman with a Crow
- Two Old People
- Birds in a Cage
- Woman Squatting with Child
- The Old Blind Manâs 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 Shawl
- La joie de vivre (Pastorale)
- Still Life with Fruit
- Waiting
- Woman Reading
- Woman Throwing a Stone
- Woman at the Window
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Discarded Epigraphs
- Voices
- About Elizabeth Cooperman