Roy R. Behrens
Roy R. Behrens, Professor of Art and Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa, has taught graphic design and design history for nearly 45 years at American colleges and universities. He has published seven books, hundreds of journal and magazine articles, and has appeared in interviews on NOVA, National Public Radio, Australian Public Radio, BBC, as well as in documentary films. His most recent book is Frank Lloyd Wright and Mason City: Architectural Heart of the Prairie (Charleston, SC: History Press).
Journal Articles
The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Buildings
Janet Ashbee: Love, Marriage, and the Arts and Crafts Movement by Felicity Ashbee. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A., 2002. 216 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 0-8156-0731-8
Swing in Beijing directed by Shui Bo Wang. VHS video, color, 2000, 73 minutes. Available from First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court Street, 21st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201, U.S.A. Web: ⟨http://www.frif.com⟩
The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook: 33 Ways to Cook Grasshoppers, Ants, Waterbugs, Spiders, Centipedes, and Their Kin
The Great Exhibition of 1851: New Interdisciplinary Essays edited by Louise Purbrick. Manchester Univ. Press, Manchester, U.K., 2001. 232 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN 0-7190-5592-X
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques and Artistry
Fonts and Logos: Font Analysis, Logotype Design, Typography, Type Comparison, and History
Lewis Carroll, Photographer by Roger Taylor and Edward Wakeling. The Princeton University Library Albums. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A., 2002. 288 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-691-07443-7
August Sander: People of the 20th Century directed by Reiner Holzemer. First Run/Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A., 2002. VHS/DVD, 44 mins.
The Hermitage Dwellers directed by Aliona van der Horst. First Run/Icarus Films, New York, 2003. VHS, 73 min., col.
Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image
Hermitage-Niks: A Passion for the Hermitage directed by Aliona van der Horst. First Run/Icarus Films, New York, 2003. VHS, 5 x 25 min., col.
American Venus: The Extraordinary Life of Audrey Munson, Model and Muse
Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition
Klimt, Schiele, Moser, Kokoschka: Vienna 1900 edited by Karen Marie-Amélie zu Salm-Salm. Lund Humphries, Burlington, VT, U.S.A., 2005. 368 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-85331-934-0
Abbott H. Thayer's Anticipation of a Computer-Based Method of Working
Lipchitz and The Avantgarde: From Paris to New York
Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies Directed by Michel Quinejure. First Run/Icarus Films, Brooklyn NY, U.S.A., 2006. VHS/DVD. 52 min. Distributor's web site: 〈http://www.frif.com〉
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering The Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
Forever Directed by Heddy Honigmann. First Run/Icarus Films, Brooklyn NY, U.S.A., 2006. VHS/DVD. 97 min. Distributor's web site: 〈http://www.frif.com〉
Merz to ÉMigré and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century
Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright
The Color Revolution by Regina Lee Blaszczyk. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2012. 368 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-0-2620-1777-0
Problem Solved: A Primer in Design and Communication
Sullivan's City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan
Taliesin Diary: A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright by Priscilla J. Henken. W.W. Norton, New York, 2012. 272 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-0-393-73380-8
The Role of Artists in Ship Camouflage During World War I
Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-e from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Graphic Design Process: From Problem to Solution by Nancy Skolos and Thomas Wedell. Laurence King Publishing, London, U.K., 2012. 192 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-85669-826-9
Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers
A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques and Artistry
Seeing through Camouflage: Abbott Thayer, Background-Picturing and the Use of Cutout Silhouettes
Don't Touch the Poet: The Life and Times of Joel Oppenheimer
American Modernism: Graphic Design, 1920 TO 1960
Knowledge of Higher Worlds: Rudolf Steiner's Blackboard Drawings
Design Connoisseur: An Eclectic Collection of Imagery and Type
Against Fashion: Clothing as Art, 1850–1930