Spansexuality

Eric Avery, artist

born 1948

Spansexuality, 1997

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: linocut pamphlet

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): closed 235 x 318 mm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 in
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): open 471 x 318 mm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 18 9/16 x 12 1/2 in

Credit line: Gift of the artist

Accession number: 2003.0187

Not on display

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“Embodiment,” Nov-2005, Kate Meyer
The artist explains that, when closed, this booklet’s cover lists words that his clinic’s transgendered patients have called themselves. When open, the He or She figures can be changed into the other by opening folded flaps, which reveal surgical sex reassignment procedures. The work is based on a late-eighteenth-century American booklet for children by James Poupard, in which the leaflets raised or let down turn Adam into Eve, or Eve into Adam. Avery’s book was printed with the help of printmaking students at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, in 1995.