Roy Behrens Explained

Roy Behrens
Birth Place:Independence, Iowa, U.S.
Education:University of Northern Iowa (BA)
Rhode Island School of Design (MA)
Workplaces:University of Northern Iowa
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Art Academy of Cincinnati
Discipline:Art
Sub Discipline:Camouflage
Birth Name:Roy Richard Behrens

Roy Richard Behrens (; born 1946) is an American artist and academic who is an emeritus professor of art and distinguished scholar at the University of Northern Iowa. He is well known for his writings on camouflage in relation to art, design and creativity as detailed in Camoupedia and additional books and essays on the subject.

Early life and education

Behrens was born in Independence, Iowa. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in art education degree from the University of Northern Iowa in 1968 and a Master of Arts in art education from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1972.[1]

Career

Behrens served in the United States Marine Corps 1969 to 1971, rising to the rank of sergeant.[2]

He taught graphic design, illustration, and design history at the University of Northern Iowa, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He has written several books and numerous papers. For twenty years, beginning in 1985, he published a quarterly magazine called Ballast Quarterly Review (the title is an acronym for Books Art Language Logic Ambiguity Science and Teaching), self-described as a "periodical commonplace book."[3] [4] Over the years, he has written numerous articles for Leonardo[5] and various books and journals.

He is the author of Camoupedia, a book[6] and blog[7] on camouflage. The camouflage researcher Isla Forsyth describes this work as an "extensive study into modern military camouflage..by the British and US military throughout the First and Second World Wars, exploring the contribution of art and science, and the ways in which, via modern and contemporary art, camouflage has been appropriated by contemporary culture".[8] Mike Leggett, reviewing the book in Leonardo, wrote that "the outcome of enthusiastic research it is, but an entertaining summary of the field it also manages to be."[9] Michael Martone calls Behrens "a wonderful writer and artist ... whose work on camouflage and art is important to me. He publishes an amazing 'zine called Ballast on visual and verbal punning."[10]

Personal life

Behrens is married to the artist Mary Snyder Behrens,[11] with whom he is founder and co-proprietor of Bobolink Books.[2]

Works

Books

Selected essays

Online films

Selected exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Rothstein . Hy . Whaley . Barton . The Art and Science of Military Deception . 2013 . Artech House . 978-1-60807-551-5 . 217.
  2. Web site: Throsby . Margaret . 19 August 2013 . Professor Roy Behrens . 20 February 2018 . ABC.
  3. Web site: Roy R. Behrens . University of Iowa . 4 February 2018.
  4. Web site: Roy R. Behrens . Amazon . 4 February 2018.
  5. Web site: Roy R. Behrens . 3 November 2016 . Leonardo . 4 February 2018.
  6. Web site: Dazzle Camouflage . Bobolink Books . 4 February 2018.
  7. Web site: Behrens . Roy R. . Camoupedia . Camoupedia . 4 February 2018.
  8. Book: Isla Forsyth . Second World War British Military Camouflage: Designing Deception . 2017 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 978-1-4742-2261-7 . 2.
  9. Leggett. Mike. Camoupedia—A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage by Roy R. Behrens. Leonardo. June 2010. 43. 3. 297–298. 10.1162/leon.2010.43.3.297 . 191255363 .
  10. Book: Martone, Michael . Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art : Writings on Writing . 2005 . University of Georgia Press . 978-0-8203-2779-2 . 177.
  11. Web site: Mary Snyder Behrens: New Work . Abe Books . 20 February 2018.

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