My Time with the Catcher Spy

by Morris Moe Berg

Overview

The book evolves around a recently discovered handwritten notebook, 61 pages, scribed by the iconic Jewish American hero, Morris 'Moe' Berg. Morris Berg played professional baseball for 16 years before joining the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), at which point he became a spy for the United States during World War II. Berg's original notebook was the beginning of a treatise on the history of baseball. The notebook is dated Feb. 22, 1960. As editor, Neil Farkas provides the actual pages of the Berg notebook. Plates are in full color.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014064668
Publisher:	Neil Farkas
Publication date:	01/27/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	99
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Paragons of cultural identity receive the exacting, raptured attention their classic status merits when their image is rendered via the talents of Neil J. Farkas. Icons, folk idols, national and world symbols that have transcended social or anthropomorphic norms are revitalized and reexamined on a human level through his extractions of their pure aesthetic potential.

The Florida-based Farkas has exhibited extensively in the Midwestern United States, including showings at the Scarab Club of Detroit; Art Space Gallery of Birmingham, Michigan; Lawrence Street Gallery, Pontiac, Michigan, the Detroit Institute of Art, and the Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Among many other sites, his work has also been exhibited at Open Space Gallery of New York City. He has recently completed a commissioned project for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. More recently, Farkas' image “One Flag” was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution and exhibited in the September 11 exhibition at the institutions National Museum of American History. An example of this work is also in the permanent collection of the New York City Public Library, Portland Art Museum, Museum of Fine Art (St. Petersburg, Florida), and Michigan State University.

Commenting on his own work Neil says, "As a product of America's turbulent 60's, it is no surprise that much of my work examines the Pop Art movement, perhaps pushing it forward with new digital technology. My technique is called photo-synthesis. I see myself as a photo realist by definition. Principally, I work with the tools of the digital age; however I deliver my work in the traditional means of lithography and serigraphy, sometimes combining both mediums within the same print.”