Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002
Person
Nationality
British
Found in 662 Collections and/or Records:
4 Unpublished Poems / Cobbing, Bob., 1976
Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17478-17844
Dates:
1976
6 Computer Scores, 1988
Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17580-17946
Dates:
1988
12 visual poems for a workshop 2nd edition, 2010
Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-50961-72039
Scope and Contents
This book was first published in 40 copies in 2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
2010
15 Shakespeare Kaku 3rd edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1973
Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-20097-20491
Scope and Contents
Designated minibooks number six. This is the third edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates:
1973
15 Shakespeare Kaku 5th edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1979
Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-46463-49192
Scope and Contents
Designated minibooks number six. This is the fifth edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates:
1979
15 Shakespeare Kaku Augmented Version / Cobbing, Bob., 1998
Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-45014-47190
Scope and Contents
This is an augmented version of an eight page booklet first published in 1972. It was first published in poems for Shakespeare by the globe playhouse trust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1998
15 Shakespeare Kaku / Cobbing, Bob., 1972
Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-17492-17858
Scope and Contents
Designated minibooks number six. This is the first edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates:
1972
67th Birthday Celebration / Bob Cobbing ; P Claire ; G Dowden ; T Green ; J Kerouac ; PC Fencott ; J Furnival ; DS Houedard, 1987
Item — Box 395: [Barcode: 31858072461597]
Identifier: CC-17445-17810
Dates:
1987
1988 New Years Greetings / Cobbing, Bob., 1987
Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-19035-19414
Scope and Contents
Handwritten message to Marvin Sackner concerning his account balance and Cobbing's new record "Aberration." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. "Xmas Day 1987" -- Source of annotation: CGC
Dates:
1987
A bunch of crooks in their Sunday best / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 1997
Item — Box 395: [Barcode: 31858072461597]
Identifier: CC-44984-47160
Dates:
1997
A Gala Exhibition / Cobbing, Bob; Houedard DS; Cox K; Wright E; Verey C; Furnival J; Finlay IH; Morgan E; Gerz J; Chopin H; Garnier P; Gette PA; Logue C; Lucie-Smith E., 1969
Item — Box 393: [Barcode: 31858072461571]
Identifier: CC-19507-19890
Scope and Contents
Cobbing mentions that nearly a thousand items were included in this exhibition that took place over one month's period which thirty thousand people attended un London's Royal Festival Hall.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1969
A Movie Book 2nd edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1978
Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17508-17874
Scope and Contents
This is the 2nd edition of a book first published in 1971. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1978
A-Nan An' Nan / Cobbing, Bob., 1989
Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-19449-19832
Dates:
1989
A Peal in Air, 1968
Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17750-18119
Scope and Contents
The verso of this drawing became a printed concrete poem by Jiri Valoch entitled Structure 1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1968
A Peal in Air / Cobbing, Bob., 1990
Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-17340-17704
Dates:
1990
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
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- Sound poetry 381
- Concrete poetry 158
- Abstract markings 143
- Xerox art 93
- Documentation 57
- Performance poetry 54
- Fragmented text 37
- Text over text 24
- Visual poetry 21
- Critical text 19
- Letter picture 18
- Repetitious text 18
- Conventional poetry 16
- Visual art 16
- Permutation 15
- Visual/verbal 15
- Alphabetical text 14
- Computer art 12
- Typewriter poetry 12
- Found poetry 10
- Conventional non-fiction 9
- Calligraphic markings 7
- Calligraphic text 7
- Constellation 6
- Exhibition review 6
- Language poetry 6
- Computer text 5
- Shaped poetry 5
- Cancelled text 3
- Conceptual text 3
- Reference text 3
- Biography 2
- Correspondence art 2
- Dada 2
- Diagram 2
- Mirror writing 2
- Neologism 2
- Performance art 2
- Phonetic text 2
- Portrait 2
- Typewriter art 2
- Typography 2
- Artist book 1
- Artist book (limited edition) 1
- Asemic writing 1
- Book catalogs 1
- Constructivism 1
- Conventional fiction 1
- Exhibitions 1
- Experimental fiction 1
- Experimental listening music 1
- Experimental typography 1
- Illustrated book 1
- Illustrated book (limited edition) 1
- Mathematical poetry 1
- Minimalist poetry 1
- Music 1
- Musical notation 1
- Optical image 1
- Palindrome 1
- Performing arts festivals 1
- Picture poetry 1
- Political poetry 1
- Political text 1