Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1920-07-30 - 2002-09-29
Nationality
British
Found in 999 Collections and/or Records:
The Moment Of Truth, 1978
Item
Identifier: CC-38240-40136
Scope and Contents
This book has 15 concrete or visual poems. It was also published in unsigned and signed hard cover editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1978
The New Poetries / Finch, Peter ; Cobbing B ; Finlay IH ; McCarthy C ; Jenkins P ; Cage J ; DeVree P., 1971
Item
Identifier: CC-12847-13134
Scope and Contents
This is a reprint of an article on the contemporaneous state of concrete poetry in the UK. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1971
The Origins of Father Christmas / Cobbing, Bob., 1980
Item
Identifier: CC-17567-17933
The Poet as the Letter C: some wrtings on Bob Cobbing / Sheppard, Robert ; Cobbing B., 1995
Item
Identifier: CC-61887-10004355
The Popular Front of Contemporary Poetry Anthology / Beasley, Paul, editor ; Finch P ; Mitchell A ; Cobbing B ; Monk G., 1992
Item
Identifier: CC-23602-24049
The Portrait / Cobbing, Bob., 1969
Item
Identifier: CC-17719-18088
The Portrait / Cobbing, Bob., 1969
Item
Identifier: CC-17720-18089
the robbers could misread them / Upton, Lawrence ; Cobbing, Bob ; Burroughs WS., 1997
Item
Identifier: CC-45238-47423
The Sacred Mushroom / Cobbing, Bob., 1975
Item
Identifier: CC-17481-17847
The Soken Word: Early Recordings 1965-1973 / Bob Cobbing; H Chopin; J Cobbing; F Dufrene; G Dufrene; P Finch., 2009
Item
Identifier: CC-59611-10002688
Scope and Contents
British Library: "Bob Cobbing (1920"“2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete, and performance poet; a central member of the British Poetry Revival; and an influence on generations of artists, sound experimenters, educators, poets, and printmakers. Perhaps his most famous work is 26 Sound Poems, several poems of which are included here, alongside collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrene, and others, as well as previously unreleased archival recordings from the BBC and the British Library's Sound Archive, in which the listener can hear Cobbing's unique exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities inherent in the English alphabet. In a career marked by the emergence of the 1960s counterculture and the thrilling potential for sound-based performance poetics, the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone as an instrument at play for the human voice; a testament to the core interdisciplinarity between writings for print and sound; and the strangely verbal...
Dates:
2009
The Soken Word: Early Recordings 1965-1973 / Bob Cobbing; H Chopin; J Cobbing; F Dufrene; G Dufrene; P Finch., 2009
Item
Identifier: CC-59611-10002688
Scope and Contents
British Library: "Bob Cobbing (1920"“2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete, and performance poet; a central member of the British Poetry Revival; and an influence on generations of artists, sound experimenters, educators, poets, and printmakers. Perhaps his most famous work is 26 Sound Poems, several poems of which are included here, alongside collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, François Dufrene, and others, as well as previously unreleased archival recordings from the BBC and the British Library's Sound Archive, in which the listener can hear Cobbing's unique exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities inherent in the English alphabet. In a career marked by the emergence of the 1960s counterculture and the thrilling potential for sound-based performance poetics, the work of Bob Cobbing stands alone as an instrument at play for the human voice; a testament to the core interdisciplinarity between writings for print and sound; and the strangely verbal...
Dates:
2009
the sound of colour - the colour of sound / Cobbing, Bob., 1997
Item
Identifier: CC-31668-33173
The Spell / Finch, Peter ; Cobbing B., 1995
Item
Identifier: CC-59642-10002718
The Tom Poems / Cobbing, Bob; Leonard T., 1983
Item
Identifier: CC-17600-17967
[The Yellow Love 2nd Ed.] / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; Nuttall J ; Gysin B ; Benveniste A ; DeVree P ; Cobbing B., 1992
Item
Identifier: CC-20202-20598
Scope and Contents
Designated Pamphlet One 2nd ed. The first edition that was published in 1968 is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1992
[The Yellow Love] / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; Nuttall J ; Cobbing B ; Benveniste A ; DeVree P ; Gysin B., 1968
Item
Identifier: CC-20200-20596
Scope and Contents
Designated Writers Forum Pamphlet One. The cover was designed by Jeff Nuttall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1968
Third ABC in Sound / Cobbing, Bob., 2000
Item
Identifier: CC-35069-36797
Scope and Contents
Each letter of the alphabet is immersed in abstract imagery. The first edition was published in 1964. The second edition was supposed to be published in the mid-1970s by Fulcrum Press but the publisher terminated operations and the edition can never be reconstituted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
2000
Thirty Concrete & Sound Poems to Celebrate 50 Years as a Poet / Cobbing, Bob ; Birdyak ; Pike J ; Metcalf P., 1992
Item — Folder 52: [Barcode: 31858072537867]
Identifier: CC-20349-20746
Scope and Contents
This suite of prints includes among others gon no nude, N Ndue, wan do tree, U CD FEG!, BESA, LN, Make perhaps this out sense of can you, iji, sovkless in sandals, DA-DA-DOO!, ata matumma, 'm, and love. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1992
This Book Is a Movie / Bowles, Jerry G., editor ; Russell, Tony, editor ; Arakawa ; Cobbing B ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Gins M ; Kostelanetz R ; Morgan E ; Ockerse T ; Phillips T ; Saroyan A ; Schwerner A ; Solt ME ; Weiner L ; Williams E ; Williams J ; Acconci V ; Asher E ; Atchley D ; Barry R ; Bochner M ; Clark TA ; Fernbach-Flarscheim C ; Hompson DD ; Hyde S ; John F ; Johnson R ; LeWitt S ; Moore AD., 1971
Item
Identifier: CC-23476-23921
Scope and Contents
This book was also designated a Delta Original by the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1971
This Is a Permissive Exhibition / Cobbing, Bob., 1969
Item
Identifier: CC-17743-18112
Scope and Contents
This is Cobbing's introduction to " A Gala Exhibition" which took place at Royal Festival Hall in 1969. It included examples of contemporary British poetry and International concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1969
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Sound poetry 528
- Concrete poetry 249
- Abstract markings 221
- Xerox art 124
- Documentation 91
- Performance poetry 64
- Conventional poetry 63
- Fragmented text 47
- Visual poetry 43
- Critical text 36
- Text over text 34
- Conventional non-fiction 30
- Visual art 24
- Letter picture 22
- Repetitious text 22
- Typewriter poetry 21
- Visual/verbal 20
- Biography 18
- Permutation 17
- Alphabetical text 15
- Found poetry 15
- Calligraphic markings 14
- Computer art 14
- Conventional fiction 14
- Calligraphic text 11
- 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
- Conceptual text 4
- Exhibition review 4
- Illustrated book (limited edition) 4
- Mathematical poetry 4
- Political poetry 4
- Assembling 3
- Auto-destructive art 3
- Correspondence art 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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