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Jacoby, Ruth, 1903-1993 (American artist)

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Celebration, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-33339-34977
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1970