{"product_id":"woman-pissing-9781496231444","title":"Woman Pissing","description":"When we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in \u003ci\u003eWoman Pissing\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoman Pissing\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496231444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Elizabeth Cooperman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42303892979893,"sku":"9781496231444","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9f90b4d9-c1c8-49de-ae94-7d85a7a24b5b.jpg?v=1658843255","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/woman-pissing-9781496231444","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}