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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Dates

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

Nationality

British

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

A Peal In Air for Apollinaire, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-19420-19803
Scope and Contents

This work depicts six poems arranged in a grid. It relates to a sculptural work also held by the Sackner Archive that was exhibited in the Apollinaire ICA exhibition in London 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

a peal in air for apollinaire & marvomovies, 1974

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-19984-20372
Scope and Contents

This print depicts two of cobbing's prints and was presumably distributed as an announcement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

A Processual Summation / Cobbing, Bob., 1986

 Item — Box 395: [Barcode: 31858072461597]
Identifier: CC-17548-17914
Scope and Contents

Last of the Processual series, this work includes transformations of each of the images in all the fourteen works, which had been published previously. Cobbing also provides documentation for the composition of all these works. He dedicates Processual Quintet to Marvin Sackner "who visited at the time of its publication." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

ABC in Sound: Sound Poems 4th Ed / Cobbing, Bob., 1986

 Item — Box 395: [Barcode: 31858072461597]
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

Ampersands, 1968

 Item — Folder 13: [Barcode: 31858069877920]
Identifier: CC-22038-22454
Scope and Contents

Design by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Anthology Meaning Meanings, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-28995-30331
Scope and Contents

This booklet was written for a workshop in a grade school class and is a second edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Bill Jubobe, 1977

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-18756-19130
Scope and Contents

This work was made for a performance in Saarbrucken, West Germany, January 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Changing Forms in Visual Poetry - The Influence of Tools and Machines 2nd Edition / Cobbing, Bob ; Furnival J ; Mayer P ; Nichol bp ; Edmonds T ; Pike J ; Houedard DS ; Fencott PC., 1997

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-47981-69004
Scope and Contents

Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.4 and is a reprinting of the lecture delivered by Cobbing at the Text as Figure exhibition in Wolfenbuttel 1987 with the following topics: 1) typewriter dirty clean, 2) typewriter, 3) calligraphy hand writing drawn letters, 4) press-on lettering, 5) press-on letters & other means, 6) mimeo misuse, 7) found materials, 8) more found materials, 9) photo-copying, 10) photo-copier, 11) computer, and 12) back to the beginning. The 69 examples in this book include mostly Cobbing's poems but a few examples of other poets as well. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997