The Poetry of Sight

Koestler on creativity Sidney Hook , Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century . New York: Harper and Row, 1987, pp. 441-444— The out...

Digital Montage [detail] / Roy R. Behrens Ralph Oesper [referring to the 19th century Scottish physicist Sir William Thomson ] in The Huma...

Digital Montage [detail] / Roy R. Behrens Lancelot Law Whyte (recalling a visit to Albert Einstein's home), quoted in G.J. Whitrow, Ei...

Anon / visual pun Puns, pungently pointed and perpetrated promptly are productive of a proruption of a pretty proportion of piquant pleasure...

At the moment I am preparing an online class session on the experience of founding a magazine in 1985. The magazine was BALLAST Quarterly Re...

In a popular online video talk , there is an overview of the function and importance of simultaneous contrast in art and design. Its releva...

RELATED LINKS   Dazzle Camouflage: What is it and how did it work? /  Nature, Art, and Camouflage / Art, Women's Rights, and Camouflag...

Janet Hulstrand (Brooklyn Bridge) I was initially drawn to this book simply because of its title. I grew up in the American Midwest, wandere...

There are twenty-five essays in a new book by Roy R. Behrens about American Midwest history, titled DREAMS OF FIELDS: MEMORY TRACES OF IOWA...

Near the end of WWII, [Iowa-born novelist Mackinlay] Kantor was serving in Europe as an American war correspondent. Embedded with the US Ar...

Just posted on LinkedIn. For details, see online link to new book at DREAMS OF FIELDS: Memory Traces of Iowa’s Past (Ice Cube Press 2025). ...

More Info [ Gertrude] Käsebier (née Gertrude Stanton) had a photographic studio on Fifth Avenue in New York…Her career had taken off late i...

more info In early 1849, Sarah Royce and her husband were living in a small community about three miles from Tipton, Iowa , 60 miles west o...

To be truthful, not all the midwestern engagements of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West were free of controversy. The most egregious example occurr...

Fort Atkinson, Iowa What can we do? Probably nothing, one suspects, as we witness individual lives daily impaired (while others of course ar...

There is lots of interest in the WPA ( Works Progress Administration ) murals that were funded by the government during the Depression . A ...

Roy R. Behrens, Montage (detail) Kurt Vonnegut , in William Rodney Allen, ed., Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (Jackson: University Press ...

NEW SERIES of talks on art and design, beginning Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at the HEARST CENTER FOR THE ARTS in Cedar Falls IA. Presenter: Ro...

Mary Snyder Behrens / 2025 Tomorrow afternoon marks the opening "artists' reception" for an exhibition (12:00-2:00 pm), title...

Above Merle Armitage cover design for his book, George Gershwin, Man and Legend. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958. ••• Bernard Wol...

Above Will H. Bradley , Bicycle Poster (1895). ••• Billie Holiday— They think they can make fuel from horse manure…Now, I don’t know if yo...

Speaking of class meetings and education, while they still exist, I am currently preparing a series of three online talks (for OLLI Drake ) ...

An advance announcement has just been made by Ice Cube Press (North Liberty IA) of my soon to be published book, titled DREAMS OF FIELDS: M...

Of late we’ve been exploring the workings of metamorphosis , the transition of a single form from one shape to another. A phenomenon not unr...

Wherever I’ve lived, I think I’ve always been interested in what has happened in the past in that state, region or location. South, East, We...

Wikipedia article : A pellet , in ornithology, is the mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regu...

Digital Montage © Roy R. Behrens 2024 Above One of a series of in-process montages having to do with the Ballets Russes (the Russian Balle...

Above One of a series of in process montages having to do with the Ballets Russes (the Russian Ballet). Copyright © Roy R. Behrens, 2024. ...