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Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002

 Person

Dates

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

Nationality

British

Found in 999 Collections and/or Records:

No.1426: Million Volt Light-Sound Rave / Maggs Brothers ; Cobbing B., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-49327-70369
Scope and Contents The annotation to the originals of nine maquettes of posters by Bob Cobbing offered for sale reads as follows. The origins and progress of London's theatrical, film andpoetic avant gardes and a significant tranche of the counterculture are traceable through these unique events posters (and one pure artwork) produced by a small and obscuregroup that emerged from the unlikely setting of suburban Hendon and Finchley. Bob Cobbing was the group's guiding spirit and founder, Britain's "major exponent of concrete, visual and sound poetry" (Guardian Obituary). He almost singlehandedly started, or at least inspired, the small DIY press revolution in Britain, founding the influential Writers' Forum, the long running "And' 'zine (copies of which are available above), and revitalising the experimental poetry scene in London in the process. Cobbing grew up in Enfield in a very strict family of fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren of hardworking signwriters (Guardian Obituary). He inherited...
Dates: 2009

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

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Subject
Sound poetry 528
Concrete poetry 249
Abstract markings 221
Xerox art 124
Documentation 91