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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Staff Only

Dates

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

Nationality

British

Found in 664 Collections and/or Records:

Appealinaire / Cobbing, Bob., 1968

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-33717-35380
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1960s / 1968

Application to Arts Council / Cobbing, Bob., 1995

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-61914-10004388
Scope and Contents

This application led to a book, "Life the Universe and Everything' published by Interim Booksin 1993, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1990s / 1995

Are Your Children Safe? In the Sea? / Cobbing, Bob., July 1998

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-44990-47166
Scope and Contents

This work was published as a triptych of prints in 1964 and then as broadsides in Eyearun in 1966. Cobbing stated on title page that first publication was 1966 but the Sackner Archive holds the prints published in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: July 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1990s / 1998

Arthur Turner / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-17627-17995
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1980s / 1989 / Miscellaneous Prints Titled Individually

As I Think Joyce Would Have Maintained / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17669-18037
Scope and Contents

This poem was published in Kollected Kriss Kringle Vol 4 by Anarcho Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1979

as i was saying / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 1996

 Item — Box 390: [Barcode: 31858072461548]
Identifier: CC-44980-47155
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Domestic Ambient Noise Series (with Lawrence Upton)

Ba-Umf II: Performance Poetry + Mime, 1985

 Item — Box 634: [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Reference Materials

Ballet of the Speech Organs: On Bob Cobbing / Cobbing, Bob ; Smith, Steven Ross ; Toop D ; Cheek C ; Griffiths B ; Adler J ; Burwell P ; Hollo A ; Harwood L ; Nuttall J ; Rowan J ; Claire P ; bissett b ; Valoch J ; Ginsberg A ; Jandl E ; Nichol bp ; Dufrene F ; Kerouac J ; Beckett S ; Joyce J ; Chopin H ; Stein G ; DeVree P., 1998

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-44993-47169
Scope and Contents Cobbing describes the first time he used words in a non-semantic way (1959). Now does no belive that there are any distinction beween music and art and poetry and dance. He indicates that he does not notate his sound poems because "every shape one sees on a page, conjures up a sound - any sound one hears conjures up a pattern, a mark on the page. Ross asks Cobbing about his sound scores [abstract markings] and how he reads these marks. He cites Norman McLaren who drew a sound track on film. McLaren stated that "a thin line will give you a high sound, a thicker line will give you a lower sound. If you make a little tiny point it'll give you a high 'ping,' if you make it a rounder blob, a biggr blob, it'll give you a 'boom'..." Cobbing indicates than when he makes marks on paper, he writes in sound. Cobbing tells about a painting he made that was exhibited in a library entitled "Integration alone is not enough" (1962/1963) in which Margaret Thatcher, then a local representative saw...
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1990s / 1998

Bang On / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 1996

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-44944-47117
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Domestic Ambient Noise Series (with Lawrence Upton)

Basil Bunting - Poem for Two Voices / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17672-18040
Scope and Contents

All the words in this poem begin with the letter "b." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1974

Basil / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-17631-17999
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1980s / 1989 / Miscellaneous Prints Titled Individually

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17468-17834
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created repeticious text variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. The pages have yellow and orange color -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1970

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-19973-20361
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created tautologic variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. Al the pages are printed on white paper stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1970

Best Wishes for 1972, 1972

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17762-18131
Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Greeting Cards

Best Wishes for 1996 / Cobbing, Bob., 1995

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-45144-47325
Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Greeting Cards

Best Xmas Wishes / Cobbing, Bob., 1980

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17760-18129
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Greeting Cards

Bill Jubobe , 1976

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17689-18057
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1976

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1970s / 1977

Bill Jubobe: Selected Texts of Bob Cobbing 1942-1975 / Cobbing, Bob ; O'Huigen, Sean., 1976

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-17490-17856
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology of Cobbing's works textural and abstract xerox works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / undated / multi-dated

Bird Yak / Bob Cobbing ; P.C. Fencott ; Hugh Metcalfe, 1985

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17561-17927
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Reference Materials / Exhibit Catalogs & Event Announcements

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