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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Nationality

British

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

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

A Winter Poem / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17682-18050
Scope and Contents

Designated Card Series No.11. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Black & White Minstrelsy Book One / Cobbing, Bob., 1990

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-17354-17718
Scope and Contents

All the images in this book are abstract. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

bob jubile, 1990

 Item — Box 393: [Barcode: 31858072461571]
Identifier: CC-20678-21080
Scope and Contents

Consists of selected texts by Bob Cobbing 1944-1990. Jennifer Pike, Bob's wife, also writes under the name Jennifer Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Collected Poems Volume Nine: Lame Limping Mangled Marked Mutilated, 1986

 Item — Box 633: [Barcode: 31858072464732]
Identifier: CC-17348-17712
Scope and Contents

David Barton's introductory essay describes Cobbing's work from 1942 to 1986 as the discovery of new sound and movement in poetry. The works reprinted in this book are mainly abstract xerox images from which Cobbing performs sound poetry. Examples of Cobbing's works in "Destruction in Art Movement," some of which are held by the Sackner Archive are also included. Cobbing denotes his mimeograph (a subclassification of "xerox art" in Archive) as duplicatorprints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Collected Poems Volume Twelve: Improvisation Is a Dirty Word / Cobbing, Bob., 1991

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-17353-17717
Scope and Contents

Many of the poems in this book, which are generally abstract, were performed by Birdyak (Hugh Metcalfe & Bob Cobbing). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Cuba / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-19618-20004
Scope and Contents

Designated Card Series No.27. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

etruscan reader IV, 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-35083-36811
Scope and Contents

The Cobbing poems are his typical abstractions with language that serve as sound poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Fingrams / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17500-17866
Scope and Contents

The images are enlarged finger prints arranged in a grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

First Duplicator Print (1942) / Cobbing, Bob., 1971

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-17721-18090
Scope and Contents

This is the reconstruction of the First Duplicator Print (1942) for the purpose of publication in Ceolfirth No.26. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971