Not the Feet of the One and Only
1993
20th century
61.5 cm x 48.5 cm (24 3/16 in. x 19 1/8 in.)
Eric Avery
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1948 - )
Printer
Eric Avery
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1948 - )
Primary
Object Type:
print
Artist Nationality:
North America, American
Medium and Support:
Linoleum cut with bleeded handwork
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Karen G. and Dr. Elgin W. Ware, Jr. Collection, 1996
Accession Number:
1996.116
This print presents the link between the emotional and physical realities of the AIDS patients that Avery treated as a psychiatrist. Not the Feet of the One and Only is inspired by Avery’s own massaging of the feet of one of his first patients at a time when many AIDS workers worried about exposure to the disease. The patient had Kaposi’s sarcoma, a common AIDS-related skin cancer.