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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:

Northern Line Angel / Radin, Betty ; Cobbing B., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-47916-68938
Scope and Contents

This book deals with a photographic, photocopier, manipulated rendition of her visits to Bob Cobbing's house via the London underground's Northern Line ending at Angel Street Station. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Notation (Computer Piece), 1987

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (2 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17790-18160

Notes For (from) Chamber Music / Cobbing, Bob., 1966

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Identifier: CC-17591-17958
Scope and Contents

This handwritten manuscript is subtitled "how it all began." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Notes from the Correspondence, 1980

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-45649-47848
Scope and Contents

The images were done by Bob Cobbing. A 2nd edition with etchings by Sylvia Finzi was published in 1983. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Notions and Notations / Cobbing, Bob; Furnival J; Houedard DS; Cox K; Claire K; Claire P; Williams E., 1979

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Identifier: CC-17596-17963
Scope and Contents

Cobbing concludes in this essay, visual (concrete) poetry can be heard, smelt, has colours, vibrations whereas sound poetry dances, tastes, has shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

O Poem From the Five Vowels, 1977

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17757-18126
Scope and Contents

This poem was utilized for publication in Pink Peace. Cobbing notes on the verso that this poem is a slightly adapted version of half the size of the original poem (first published in 1974 and held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Octo, 1969

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491305]
Identifier: CC-17451-17816
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder number five. This is the first edition. Poems contained in Octo "Are Your Children Safely in the Sea?" "Integration Alone Is Not Enough," "Spontaeous Appealinair Contemprate Apollinaire," and "Marvo Movies Natter." Each poem is presented in two versions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

On Impulse / Cobbing, Bob., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-20550-20947
Scope and Contents

This book provides s sampling of Cobbing's previously published poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

On the Concrete Poetry of Bob Cobbing / Trevor, Stan ; Cobbing B., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-01393-1426
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Open and Closed Book, The: Contemporary Book Arts / Quentin Blake, curator ; Adler J ; Chopin H ; Christie J ; Cobbing B ; Crozier R ; Cutts S ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Gibbs M ; Heidsieck B ; Houedard DS ; King R ; Mayer P ; Mon F ; Phillips T ; Tilson Jo ; Torok K ; Williams E ; Williams J ; Claire P ; Antonucci E ; d'Arbeloff N ; Bal E ; Ballard J ; Bann S ; Beckett S ; Benes BL ; Benveniste A ; Benveniste P ; Boyle M ; Brattinga P ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Campbell K ; Carroll L ; Castro L ; Chopin J ; Clark L ; Clark TA ; Corso G ; Creeley R ; Crozier R ; Degottex J ; Duncalf S ; Elmslie K ; Erro ; Fidler M ; Fisher A ; Fisher R ; Furnival A ; Gardner I ; Gilbert & George ; Gerz J ; Gill E ; Greenham L ; Griffiths B ; Schraenen G ; Haacke H ; Hamilton R ; Mayer HJ ; Harvey M ; Hausmann R ; Hockney D ; Hollo A ; Horovitz M ; Howe N ; Johns J ; Joyce J ; Kindersley D ; Kitaj R ; Laforgue J ; Latham J ; Lax R ; Logue C ; Long R ; Lucie-Smith E ; MacLow J ; Martin K ; Merton T ; Mon F ; Moore AD ; Morgan E ; Morgenstern C ; Novak L ; Perse SJ ; Piech PP ; Phillips J ; Radin B ; Raworth T ; Riddell A ; Rimbaud A ; Roberts K ; Roth D ; Rothenberg J ; Sackett C ; Self C ; Seuphor M ; Smith P ; Spencer H ; Summers R ; Themerson F ; Themerson S ; Tremlett D ; Tyson I ; Ungerer T ; Vonna-Mitchell E ; Waldrop K ; Weaver M ; Weiner L ; White K ; Willats S ; Winkfield T ; Yevtushenko Y ; Zurbrugg N., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-05213-5313
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by R C Kenedy. Tom Phillips designed the cover of this catalogue of British book arts. Sections are devoted to private presses, fine binding, typography and concrete poetry. Particular mention is paid to John Furnival "who paints builds whole landscapes from semantic elements" and Ian Hamilton Finlay "who creates poetry through providing words with a rigorously controlled and potently significant environment." Page 230 depicts John Christie's Word Clock III (1978) that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Open Folios, 1993

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-20539-20936
Scope and Contents

Includes several texts from 1965 to 1968 that have been reworked and new texts from 1972 to 1993 that were not previously published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

or / ro / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-17471-17837
Scope and Contents

Each of the four pages of this book depicts a typewriter poem that consists of the text "or/ro" and other two letter words such as "we/we." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Additional filters:

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