Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1920-07-30 - 2002-09-29
Nationality
British
Found in 973 Collections and/or Records:
Application to Arts Council / Cobbing, Bob., 1995
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Identifier: CC-61914-10004388
Scope and Contents
This application led to a book, "Life the Universe and Everything' published by Interim Booksin 1993, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1995
Approach Magazine. No.2 / Gilbert Ryle, editor ; Bann S ; Houedard DS ; Cobbing B ; Bense M ; Jandl E ; Ulrichs T ; Ruhm G ; Chopin H ; DeVree P ; Heidsieck B ; Furnival J ; Finlay IH ; Cox K ; Valoch J., 1968
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Identifier: CC-24819-25272
Scope and Contents
This issue includes a Glyn Pursglove's essay, "An Introduction to Concrete Poetry." He states "The phrase 'Concrete Poetry' is bandied about a great deal in a way which seems to suggest that all those to whom it is applied are part of a conscious, united movement, and that they are artists whose work is dictated by a set of common and explicit principles. As anyone with any understanding of artistic 'movements' will readily imagine, this is a superficial and misleading idea. Certainly there have been plenty of explicit statements by some of the poets involved but these have, naturally, attracted as many opponents as supporters. One of the most important of such statements was 'POSITION 1 of International (Movement) for Spatial Poetries" organised by, among others, Pierre Gamier. This was not quite a manifesto, in the sense of a document proclaiming plans for the future, but rather a formalisation of a situation. Gamier was fully conscious of the difficulties, and his closing words...
Dates:
1968
Archive of Correspondence: [Letter from Cinicolo to Houedard](sun 21 my 72) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cinicolo 3, Donato; Cobbing B; Cage J., 1972
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Identifier: CC-09517-9706
Scope and Contents
Cinicolo aknowleges receipt of corrected proofs of Newcastle catalogue and mentions telephone coversations with John Cage and Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1972
Are Your Children Safe? In the Sea? / Cobbing, Bob., 1998
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Identifier: CC-44990-47166
Scope and Contents
This work was published as a triptych of prints in 1964 and then as broadsides in Eyearun in 1966. Cobbing stated on title page that first publication was 1966 but the Sackner Archive holds the prints published in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1998
Art Without Boundaries: 1950-70 / Woods, Gerald, editor ; Thompson, Philip, editor ; Williams, John, editor ; LeWitt S ; Boyle M ; Cobbing B ; Roth D ; Higgins D ; Houedard DS ; Oldenburg C ; Gaul W ; Bass S ; Carmi E ; Folon ; Hamilton R ; Kriwet F ; Massin R ; Mayer HJ ; Rand P ; Rauschenberg R ; Themerson F ; Themerson S ; Tschichold J ; Wright E ; Cage J ; Chermayeff I ; Fletcher A ; Ionesco E ; Schmidt P., 1972
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Identifier: CC-41951-43947
Scope and Contents
This book is reviewed by Adrian Shaughnessy in eye Vol.13 no.50, 2003. Its aim was to show that graphic design and fine art blend as one. In the review, Shaugnessy points out that in the 21st century, the disciplines are growing apart due to commercial art galleries that need to distinguish the two to maintain business. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1972
Arthur Turner / Cobbing, Bob., 1989
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Identifier: CC-17627-17995
As I Think Joyce Would Have Maintained / Cobbing, Bob., 1979
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Identifier: CC-17669-18037
Scope and Contents
This poem was published in Kollected Kriss Kringle Vol 4 by Anarcho Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1979
as i was saying / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 1996
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Identifier: CC-44980-47155
Assembling Magazines 1969-2000 / Perneczky, Geza ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; Carrion U ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Spatola A ; Vigo EA ; Ferrando B ; Perez D ; Calleja JM ; Kostelanetz R ; Szombathy B ; Perkins S ; Kocman JH ; Schraenen G ; Padin C ; Sampaio J ; Bruscky P ; Lisboa U ; Rehfeldt R ; Deisler G ; Jesch B ; Warnke U ; Dana L ; Fischer H ; VanBarneveld A ; Brand J ; DeJonge K ; Gaglione B ; Meade R ; Marin M ; Baroni V ; Ruch G ; Black J ; Raman E ; Herman C ; Holtz S ; Bogdanovic N ; Lenoir P ; Pignatari D ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Tarlatt U ; Kowalski J ; Berchenko G ; Zito R ; Petasz P ; Giacomucci U ; Boumans B ; Kantor I ; Zack D ; Home S ; Olbrich JO ; Hainke W ; Ciani P ; Kierspel J ; Stirnemann MV ; McLean D ; Neaderland L ; Stetser C ; And M ; Was E ; Bille P ; Alatalo S ; Gerlovina R ; Gerlovin V ; Nikonova R ; Segay S ; Konstriktor B ; Ebel G ; Ahnert C ; Cohen R ; Cardella J ; Guttierez R ; Peacock S ; Fabry A ; Resch R ; Krabbe P ; Putz C ; Tillier T ; Maggi R ; Morandi E ; Gagnon JC ; Lehmus J ; Seifert J ; Galantai G ; Toth G ; Blaine J ; spence p ; Collins P ; Delgado FG ; Gette PA., 2007
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Identifier: CC-46801-49533
Scope and Contents
Perneczky provides essays on definitions and history of Assemblings as well as in depth analysis of individual publications in this heavily illustrated book. He adds personal vignettes on collecting several of these publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
2007
Association of Little Presses Newsletter. Mar-May / Bob Cobbing, editor ; Higgins D., 1981
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Identifier: CC-31338-32814
Association of Little Presses Newsletter. No.1/Jun / Bob Cobbing, editor., 1984
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Identifier: CC-31363-32840
Association of Little Presses Newsletter. No.2/Sep / Bob Cobbing, editor ; Cobbing B., 1984
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Identifier: CC-31361-32838
Association of Little Presses Newsletter. No.3/May-Jun / Bob Cobbing, editor., 1984
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Identifier: CC-31362-32839
Association of Little Presses Newsletter. No.4/Jan / Bob Cobbing, editor., 1982
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Identifier: CC-31364-32841
Association of Little Presses Newsletter. No.9 / Cobbing B., 1968
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Identifier: CC-26117-26579
Ba-Umf II: Performance Poetry + Mime, 1985
Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (2 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Bag / Upton, Lawrence ; Cobbing, Bob., 1997
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Identifier: CC-45227-47412
Ballet of the Speech Organs: On Bob Cobbing / Cobbing, Bob ; Smith, Steven Ross ; Toop D ; Cheek C ; Griffiths B ; Adler J ; Burwell P ; Hollo A ; Harwood L ; Nuttall J ; Rowan J ; Claire P ; bissett b ; Valoch J ; Ginsberg A ; Jandl E ; Nichol bp ; Dufrene F ; Kerouac J ; Beckett S ; Joyce J ; Chopin H ; Stein G ; DeVree P., 1998
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Identifier: CC-44993-47169
Scope and Contents
Cobbing describes the first time he used words in a non-semantic way (1959). Now does no belive that there are any distinction beween music and art and poetry and dance. He indicates that he does not notate his sound poems because "every shape one sees on a page, conjures up a sound - any sound one hears conjures up a pattern, a mark on the page. Ross asks Cobbing about his sound scores [abstract markings] and how he reads these marks. He cites Norman McLaren who drew a sound track on film. McLaren stated that "a thin line will give you a high sound, a thicker line will give you a lower sound. If you make a little tiny point it'll give you a high 'ping,' if you make it a rounder blob, a biggr blob, it'll give you a 'boom'..." Cobbing indicates than when he makes marks on paper, he writes in sound. Cobbing tells about a painting he made that was exhibited in a library entitled "Integration alone is not enough" (1962/1963) in which Margaret Thatcher, then a local representative saw...
Dates:
1998
Bang On / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 1996
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Identifier: CC-44944-47117
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- Sound poetry 521
- Concrete poetry 241
- Abstract markings 214
- Xerox art 118
- Documentation 87
- Performance poetry 63
- Conventional poetry 60
- Visual poetry 43
- Fragmented text 39
- Critical text 36
- Text over text 34
- Conventional non-fiction 30
- Visual art 23
- Repetitious text 22
- Typewriter poetry 21
- Visual/verbal 20
- Biography 18
- Letter picture 18
- Permutation 16
- Alphabetical text 14
- Computer art 14
- Found poetry 14
- Calligraphic markings 13
- Conventional fiction 13
- Calligraphic text 11
- Language poetry 10
- Reference text 9
- Artist book 8
- Shaped poetry 8
- Book review 7
- Constellation 7
- Political text 7
- Music 6
- Computer text 5
- Experimental fiction 5
- Musical notation 5
- Picture poetry 5
- Artist book (citation) 4
- Cancelled text 4
- Conceptual text 4
- Exhibition review 4
- Illustrated book (limited edition) 4
- Political poetry 4
- Assembling 3
- Auto-destructive art 3
- Correspondence art 3
- Dada 3
- Exhibitions 3
- Fluxus 3
- Mathematical poetry 3
- Typography 3
- Bibliography 2
- Diagram 2
- Experimental typography 2
- Illustrated book 2
- Minimalist poetry 2
- Mirror writing 2
- Neologism 2
- Performance art 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
- Experimental listening music 1
- Haiku 1
- Ideogram 1
- Lettrisme 1
- Music score 1
- Obituary 1
- Optical image 1
- Palindrome 1
- Performing arts festivals 1
- Stamp art 1
- Vorticism 1 + ∧ less
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