The Poetry of Sight

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. ...

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

source EDWARD MARSH and CHRISTOPHER HASSALL , Ambrosia and Small Beer . NY: Harcourt Brace. 1965— A so ldier up for medical exam proved to ...

Source LEWIS H. LAPHAM , et al., The Harper’s Index Book (New York : Henry Holt, 1986)— Percentage of Americans who never read books: 45. E...

Here are two views of a single illustration, created by Hy Mayer (aka Henry Mayer) and published in Puck (19 September 1914), vol 76 no 1...

Last evening, I had the pleasure of attending the opening of the 2024 Elena Diane Curris Biennial Design Exhibition the UNI Gallery of Art ...

Curris Exhibition Opening  

In the last week of October, I will begin to teach my latest online course for Drake University , as part of their Osher Lifelong Learning I...

Douglas Fowler, S.J. Perelman . Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983, p. 83— Continuing an ancient and honorable line of speculation into the nat...

Making online videos is apparently always a challenge. From my experience, the results are always uneven, largely because there are always m...

Good news travels slowly here. I recently ran across a book by Temple Grandin (widely-known authority on autism and animal science) publish...

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Paul Cézanne, The Bathers Donald M. Anderson , Elements of Design . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961— Toward the end of his career...

still image from online Ames video trilogy Oops. Soon after posting that quote about the friendship of Adelbert Ames Jr. (born aristocrat) ...

John Sloan , Cover illustration (1914) Herbert Faulkner West , John Sloan's Last Summer . Iowa City IA: Prairie Press, 1952— I was talki...

The success of the Ruth Suckow Traveling Exhibition is non-stop. It continues to travel throughout the state, to libraries, history centers...

Above Advertisement for a Hal Roach 1923 film comedy starring Harold Lloyd , called Safety Last . It shows him hanging precariously from a...

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Art, Design and Gestalt Theory: The Film Version  

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Just posted: Reprint of an article by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne , originally published in 1922 in The Boston Transcript , about the art and ...

Guggenheim Museum under construction The famous bungled robbery of the First National Bank in Northfield MN took place on September 7, 1876...