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FIGURE 1.3. Back cover of Cobra, no. 10 (Fall 1951). Collection Stedelijk Museum Schiedam,
The Netherlands. Photograph by Bob Goedewaagen, Rotterdam. A coiled cobra, a mystical beast and
a prominent symbol in many ancient genesis myths, was the group’s trademark. Homogenizing the
group’s acronym into one signiWer clearly encapsulates their rhetoric of a third force and a desire to
situate their international collective experimentation outside the dominant cold war discursive modes
based on modernization and progress.