Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002
Nationality
British
Found in 662 Collections and/or Records:
Clyde Dunkob in Vancouver / Cobbing, Bob ; Fencott, P.C.., 1982
Cobbing and Fencott in Baltimore / Cobbing, Bob ; Fencott, P.C.., 1982
Collected Poems Volume Fifteen: Gibbering His Wares / Cobbing, Bob ; Manson P., 1996
The cover was designed by Peter Manson. The final section of this book consists of annotations to the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Collected Poems Volume Five: Girlie Poems / Cobbing, Bob ; Griffiths B., 1982
Girlie poems are works or poems dedicated to 'girls' whose names, at the very least, have fascinated Cobbing. The poems are constructed as permutations, palindromes, and visual scores by overprinting. As noted by Griffiths, the simpler the score, the greater the performance potential because it allows Cobbing wider improvisation. The book reprints a large number of these poems. One copy of this book has an orange color and another a blue color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Collected Poems Volume Four: The Kollekted Kris Kringle / Cobbing, Bob., 1979
This book includes poetry and performance notes which document several published works by Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Collected Poems Volume Nine: Lame Limping Mangled Marked Mutilated, 1986
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.
Collected Poems Volume One: Cygnet Ring / Cobbing, Bob., 1977
This book includes poems of cut-ups begun in 1956. The method was to decide on the number of lines, clip out newspaper lines of the required number, and paste them up in an effective order to give an appearance of a conventional poem. This work antedates Gysin's 1959 cut-ups, usually attributed as the first to employ it. This book also includes cut-ups of earlier cut-ups, and permutations or mutations based on newspaper headlines but originating from phrases clipped from books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Collected Poems Volume One: Cygnet Ring [Performance Copy] / Cobbing, Bob., 1977
Cobbing used the structure of the original book and added poems for a performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Collected Poems Volume Seven: Vowels & Consequences / Cobbing, Bob ; Griffiths B., 1985
Bill Griffiths' introductory essay explains how Cobbing has used the duplicator, ink, stencils and over-printing to create texts of shapes and textures. They "move away from word and letter as conventional symbols...into a new semantics of shape. The works in this book date from 1970 to 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Collected Poems Volume Six: Sockless in Sandals / Cobbing, Bob ; Finch P., 1985
This volume contains poetry from 1976 through July 1985. In his intoductory essay, Peter finch writes that these works are modernist in the found tradition of Duchamp. Many poems are transformed pieces of lists and information reorganized by Cobbing who also performs the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Collected Poems Volume Sixteen: Shrieks & Hisses / Cobbing, Bob, 1999
Collected Poems Volume Thirteen: Voice Prints / Cobbing, Bob ; Mottram E ; Higgins D ; Solt ME ; Claire P ; Griffiths B ; Fencott PC ; Metcalfe H., 1993
In his introduction, Eric Mottram writes that "Voice Prints is for voice performance, and looking or meditating performance...[The] poem-texts or poem-images continue Bob Cobbings's experimental achievements with many uses of words, word-orders and word designs." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Collected Poems Volume Three: A Peal In Air 1968-1970 / Cobbing, Bob ; Truhlar R., 1978
Richard Truhlar writes "Cobbing uses the writer's tools (typewriter, various duplicating machines, ink, etc.) to explore the word and/or letter as hieroglyph, as phonetic symbol, and as concrete graphic interaction of language image with eye and body rhythms." This volume mainly depicts typewriter poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Collected Poems Volume Twelve: Improvisation Is a Dirty Word / Cobbing, Bob., 1991
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.
Collected Poems Volume Two: Wan A Do B Tree C / Cobbing, Bob., 1978
This book incorporates all the material in the two publications, Sound Poems (An A B C in Sound), January 1995, and Kurrirrurriri, November 1967. It consists largely of sound poems though some are written in expressive visual format. The earliest poem in the book, 'Worm' was written in 1954 but did not achieve its final version until 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Computer Generated Poems] / Cobbing, Bob., 1989
Computer Graphic Score No.8 / Cobbing, Bob; Millis B., 1986
Cobbing notes that this piece was performed by the new vocal group "Alphonso" consisting of Bob Cobbing and Bill Millis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Computer Graphic Score No.9 / Cobbing, Bob., 1986
Computer Graphics - Card 1 / Cobbing, Bob., 1986
Computer Poems [aawai] / Cobbing, Bob., 1988
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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
