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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1920-07-30 - 2002-09-29

Nationality

British

Found in 974 Collections and/or Records:

Machine Poetry / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-17670-18038
Scope and Contents

Cobbing discusses the justifications in using machines to enhance the performance of sound poems. The handwritten text are notes unrelated to the essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Make Perhaps This Out Sense If Can You / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-17716-18085
Scope and Contents

The title sentence first was printed in the Kilburn Times and was also the title of an exhibition curated by Mathew Abess at the University of Pennsylvania,. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You / Cobbing B ; Abess M ; Traister D ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47112-49851
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was published for the exhibition on the work of the British poet, Bob Cobbing. The exhibition was curated by Matthew Abess who was the scholar in residence at the Sackner Archive during the summer of 2006 between his sophomore and junior years at the University of Pennsylvania. He also wrote the catalogue essay and organized a symposium at the Kelly Writers House with Maggie O'Sullivan and cris cheek, compatriates of Bob Cobbing, participating in the event along with Charles Bernstein and Marvin Sackner. All the Cobbing material for the exhibition came from the Sackner Archive. The three copies in the Sackner Archive will be considered varient copies as the final few pages were poorly printed. Marvin Sackner advised the attendees to hold on to these copies as special before a more perfect version is reprinted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You / Cobbing, Bob ; Abess M ; Traister D ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-48181-69205
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was published for the exhibition of works of Bob Cobbing selected from the Sackner Archive. The curator, Matthew Abess, SAS '08, was an intern in the Archive during the summer of 2006 when he researched the material for this exhibition. In addition to writing an in-depth catalogue essay, Matthew Abess organized recorded sound poetry readings on multiple head phones in the gallery, and planned a seminar with cris cheek and Maggie O'Sullivan at the Writers House. This is the second printing of the catalogue with the pages evenly printed throughout. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You [Varient] / Cobbing, Bob ; Abess M ; Traister D ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47381-68378
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was published for the exhibition of works of Bob Cobbing selected from the Sackner Archive. The curator, Matthew Abess, SAS '08, was an intern in the Archive during the summer of 2006 when he researched the material for this exhibition. In addition to writing an in-depth catalogue essay, Matthew Abess organized recorded sound poetry readings on multiple head phones in the gallery, and planned a seminar with cris cheek and Maggie O'Sullivan at the Writers House. Since the printing was faded in various parts of sentences on the last pages, Marvin Sackner pointed out that this should be considered a varient and was reminiscent of Cobbing's photoduplicator books. The catalogue was subsequently reprinted appropriately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Makeshift, 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (2 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17925-18295

Makeshift [Double Sided Letter Piece], 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (2 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17924-18294

Marvo Movies Matter / Cobbing, Bob., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-17681-18049
Scope and Contents

The duplicate is signed but not dated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Mary Rudolf's Chromosomes, 1972

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (2 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17787-18157
Scope and Contents

This poem with the appearance of a film sequence in the form of a grid, was published in Second Aeon No.15, 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Mild Mannered Mews / Upton, Lawrence ; Cobbing, Bob ; Metcalf P., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-34320-36015
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of abstract black and white images that were rendered into a performance by Birdyak on the occasion of Cobbing's 76th birthday. One of the loose sheets is an extremely witty newspaper review by Jon Levitt of the performance; the other is a photograph of the performers. The duplicate copy does not have the newspaper review. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Mirror Text, 1976

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17699-18068
Scope and Contents

Designated Card Series No.19. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Modern British Poetry Conference / Brookeman, Chris, editor ; Cobbing B ; Finch P ; Mottram E ; Fisher A ; Benveniste A ; Pound E ; Olson C ; Nuttall J., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-23030-23467
Scope and Contents

Numerous concrete and visual poets whose work is represented in the Sackner Archive are noted by name in the small press section of the essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

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Subject
Sound poetry 521
Concrete poetry 241
Abstract markings 214
Xerox art 118
Documentation 88