Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1920-07-30 - 2002-09-29
Nationality
British
Found in 986 Collections and/or Records:
4 Unpublished Poems / Cobbing, Bob., 1976
Item
Identifier: CC-17478-17844
6 Computer Scores / Cobbing, Bob., 1988
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Identifier: CC-17580-17946
8 or 9 Poems / Cobbing, Bob., 1971
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Identifier: CC-17488-17854
12 visual poems for a workshop 2nd edition / Beaulieu, Derek, editor ; Aguiar F ; Beaulieu D ; Cobbing B ; Werkman HN ; Spatola A ; spence p ; Waerness G ; Cameron C., 2010
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Identifier: CC-50961-72039
Scope and Contents
This book was first published in 40 copies in 2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
2010
15 Shakespeare Kaku 3rd edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1973
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Identifier: CC-20097-20491
Scope and Contents
Designated minibooks number six. This is the third edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates:
1973
15 Shakespeare Kaku 5th edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1979
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Identifier: CC-46463-49192
Scope and Contents
Designated minibooks number six. This is the fifth edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates:
1979
15 Shakespeare Kaku Augmented Version / Cobbing, Bob., 1998
Item
Identifier: CC-45014-47190
Scope and Contents
This is an augmented version of an eight page booklet first published in 1972. It was first published in poems for Shakespeare by the globe playhouse trust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1998
15 Shakespeare Kaku / Cobbing, Bob., 1972
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Identifier: CC-17492-17858
Scope and Contents
Designated minibooks number six. This is the first edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates:
1972
A B C in Sound: Sound Poems 4th Ed / Cobbing, Bob., 1986
Item
Identifier: CC-17534-17900
Scope and Contents
Each page contains a poem for a letter of the alphabet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1986
A Boatyard / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; MacBeth G ; Lucie-Smith E ; McCarthy C ; Finlay IH ; Cobbing B., 1969
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Identifier: CC-11719-11937
Scope and Contents
Each page depicts a sailing ship and a caption with its name designated for a poet, namely MacBeth, Lucie-Smith, McCarthy, Finlay, and Cobbing. The caption is a tongue-in- cheek characterization of the poet's work or performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1969
A bunch of crooks in their Sunday best / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 1997
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Identifier: CC-44984-47160
A Collection of Concrete Poetry / Dawson-Sinclair ; Cobbing B ; Cutts S ; Chopin H ; Furnival J ; Finch P ; Mills S ; Houedard DS ; Finlay IH ; Clavin H ; Dowden G ; Fisher R ; Gomringer E ; Kostelanetz R ; Lax R ; Lloyd A ; Curtay JP ; McCarthy C ; Lucie-Smith E ; McLuhan M ; Nichol bp ; Pacey P ; Nuttall J ; Gullar F ; Porter B ; Sharkey JJ ; Solt ME ; Spatola A ; Verey C ; Wildman E ; Williams E ; Duncalf S ; Fidler M ; Winkfield T ; McCarthy U ; Hollo A ; O'Huigin S ; Ward JP ; Jenkins P ; Torok K ; Gardner I., 1990
Item
Identifier: CC-14858-15171
Scope and Contents
This extensive collection of concrete, visual and picture poetry was offered as a collection, not of individual items. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1990
A Collection of Concrete & Visual Poetry / Hoffberg, Judith ; Sharkey JJ ; Finch P ; Cobbing B ; Furnival J ; Finlay IH ; Houedard DS ; Nichol bp ; Chopin H ; Nova GL ; Minkoff G ; Loye P ; Phillips T ; Mon F ; Dohl R ; Cox K ; Schmidt W ; Arias-Misson A ; Aylward D ; Bedford D ; Blaine J ; Bory JF ; Brown P ; Burroughs WS ; Castillejo JL ; Carter A ; Clark TA ; DeCampos A ; cummings ee ; deCharmoy C ; Cutts S ; Garnier P ; Gosewitz L ; Gibbs M ; Hazelton DR ; Gysin B ; Heidsieck B ; Hausmann R ; Hirsal J ; Jandl E ; Kozlowski J ; Kilburn D ; Kolar J ; Kriwet F ; Mayer HJ ; Mayer P ; Pacey P ; Phillips MJ ; O'Huigin S ; Roth D ; Roysan BW ; Rowan J ; Schauffelen KB ; Themerson S ; Thacker E ; Valoch J ; Vaughn-James M ; Verey C ; Ward JP ; Williams E ; Wright E., 1979
Item
Identifier: CC-45811-48021
Scope and Contents
This is a catalogue for the first major collection purchased by the Sackners in the formative stages of their Archive. Hoffberg was representing Richard Aaron, the bookdealer who owned this collection. Hoffberg had offered the collection to Jean Brown who did not buy it but referred the Sackners as potential buyers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1979
A Daze of All My Days / Cobbing, Bob., 1989
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Identifier: CC-17612-17980
A Gala Exhibition / Cobbing, Bob; Houedard DS; Cox K; Wright E; Verey C; Furnival J; Finlay IH; Morgan E; Gerz J; Chopin H; Garnier P; Gette PA; Logue C; Lucie-Smith E., 1969
Item
Identifier: CC-19507-19890
Scope and Contents
Cobbing mentions that nearly a thousand items were included in this exhibition that took place over one month's period which thirty thousand people attended un London's Royal Festival Hall.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1969
A Good Fuck Makes Me Feel Like Custard / Cobbing, Bob., 1996
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Identifier: CC-45189-47373
A London Odyssey / Radin, Betty ; Cobbing B., 1989
Item
Identifier: CC-03152-3201
Scope and Contents
This book was designed by Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1989
A Margem. No.18/Jan-Feb / Rejane Cardoso, editor ; Claudio J ; Brito-Rio M ; Frangione N ; Maggi R ; deAraujo A ; Capistrano L ; Held Jjr ; Sarenco., 1989
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Identifier: CC-45098-47276
A Mingling of Streams / Beake, Fred, editor ; Cobbing B ; Griffiths B ; Morgan E ; Bielski A ; Halsey A., 1989
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Identifier: CC-23028-23465
Scope and Contents
The book is an anthology of poems selected from "The Poet's Voice" and produced by the Salzburg Studies in English Literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1989
A Moise for Noise Gate / Upton, Lawrence ; Cobbing, Bob., 1997
Item
Identifier: CC-45224-47409
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Sound poetry 523
- Concrete poetry 239
- Abstract markings 220
- Xerox art 124
- Documentation 93
- Conventional poetry 63
- Performance poetry 63
- Fragmented text 45
- Visual poetry 43
- Critical text 36
- Text over text 33
- Conventional non-fiction 30
- Visual art 23
- Letter picture 22
- Repetitious text 22
- Typewriter poetry 20
- Visual/verbal 20
- Biography 18
- Permutation 16
- Found poetry 15
- Calligraphic markings 14
- Computer art 14
- Conventional fiction 14
- Alphabetical text 13
- Calligraphic text 10
- Language poetry 10
- Shaped poetry 10
- Reference text 9
- Artist book 8
- Political text 8
- Book review 7
- Constellation 7
- Music 6
- Cancelled text 5
- Computer text 5
- Experimental fiction 5
- Musical notation 5
- Picture poetry 5
- Artist book (citation) 4
- Correspondence art 4
- Exhibition review 4
- Illustrated book (limited edition) 4
- Mathematical poetry 4
- Political poetry 4
- Assembling 3
- Auto-destructive art 3
- Conceptual text 3
- Fluxus 3
- Typography 3
- Bibliography 2
- Dada 2
- Diagram 2
- Experimental typography 2
- Illustrated book 2
- Minimalist poetry 2
- Mirror writing 2
- Neologism 2
- Phonetic text 2
- Portrait 2
- Pre-Mallarme work 2
- Surrealism 2
- Typewriter art 2
- Aphorism 1
- Artist book (limited edition) 1
- Asemic writing 1
- Bauhaus 1
- Conceptual art 1
- Constructivism 1
- Cubism 1
- Haiku 1
- Ideogram 1
- Lettrisme 1
- Music score 1
- Obituary 1
- Optical image 1
- Palindrome 1
- Stamp art 1
- Vorticism 1 + ∧ less
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