Jacoby, Ruth, 1903-1993 (American artist)
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
A Standing Noel / Ruth Jacoby., 1980
This work is a standing concrete poem accompanied by set-up instructions. It was made from cuttings of the previous year's Christmas cards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Standing Noel / Ruth Jacoby., 1980
This work is a standing concrete poem accompanied by set-up instructions. It was made from cuttings of the previous year's Christmas cards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Apres Empriente Originale de Picasso , 1970
This is an early example of the art of appropriation later popularized by Richard Pettibone and Sherrie Levine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Black Like Me, 1980
This work is based upon a poem by Langston Hughes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Celebration, 1970
A folding handwritten sheet of papercard is collaged to the right half of the work. It is entitled "XAIPE" and consists of a series of Hurrah statements for people, events and things. It begins, "Hurrah for life - Hurrah for friendship - Hurrah for sex - Hurrah for Picasso - Hurrah for dada - Hurrah for Duchamp, etc. The left half of the collage contains the words, Hurrah and Celebration, handcut from black paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Concrete Poetry / Jacoby, Ruth., 1968
Greetings 1984 / Jacoby, Ruth., 1984
Life Cycles, 1970
The word "eat" is printed 19 times in a center column. On the top line, The letters "cr" and "ion" are added to form creation. In the middle of the column, "procr" and "ion" are added to spell procreation. At the bottom "d" and "h" are added to state death. Jacoby writes on the verso of the frame, "One definition of EAT: To corrode; waste or wear away. Life cycles are birth - sex - death. This poem is a combination of man's life cycles with the life process of wearing away." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
On a Nuclear Day, 1970
Picasso the Sorcerer / Jacoby, Ruth., 1986
Jacoby notes that the word, spiral, has its origins from the latin word, spirare, which means to breathe. This text and Picasso images on this page oppose a page with a quote from Picasso, "Work is my respiration. When I cannot work, I cannot breathe Jacoby then creates a permutation with a Picasso-related theme: work, word, wore, wove, cove, dove, love, live. She draws a spiral and closes the poem with the words Aspiration, Inspiration, Respiration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.