Lemuria Bookstore Blog

Well, you can read the introductions, I guess. But no reading is necessary to enjoy these two books. The Art of American Book Covers: 1875-1930 by Richard Minksy (George Braziller, 2010) Richard Minsky has collected the best of the American book covers and compiled them here in a book that, fittingly, has a lovely cover [...]

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Dear readers, there is something big out there, about to happen. This something is as old as the hills but the awareness of it is about to burst open–if we just pay attention. Rumors, scores of books, television–they’ve all been hinting at it. Even Depak Chopra, the guru of all things healthy, wise and mostly [...]

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I am not the type of person that one immediately looks at and assumes that I have a “good sense of fashion.” And I don’t have a deep background in knowing who’s who or histories and breakthroughs, but I do have quite appreciation for the design and materials with which the fashion giants use their [...]

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While reorganizing my Film/MTV section this week, I came across a book on the Dance and Musicals shelf. Hidden out of sight and wrapped in shrink wrap, I found two copies of Lea Vergine’s Body Art and Performance. Flipping through this documented history, I recognized several faces—mostly on account of super saturating my undergraduate schedule [...]

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I have always been a history buff. I grew up with a father who loved to read books having to do with history or historical figures. Some that I remember seeing on his bedside table were about Churchill, Madam Chiang Kai-shek, Mark Twain; anything on World War II, the Terracotta Soldiers, Nixon, Kennedy, etc. He [...]

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As I have been accommodating myself to the art books and getting familiar with the particular collections we have, the photography section has been a learning experience. My knowledge being somewhat limited in the area, I have gone through most of them trying to gain a personal grasp on the subject.  I have found it [...]

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“The impulse to draw is as natural as the impulse to talk. As a rule, we learn to talk through a simple process of practice, making plenty of mistakes when we are two and three and four years old — but without this first effort at understanding and talking it would be foolish to attempt [...]

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Recently, I have looked through a couple of awesome collections of poster and logo designs. This world of graphic design and illustration is a quirky one; and although I a member of their race, I am nerdy enough to get excited about these books. The work of these we see everyday and do not always [...]

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As I was cleaning out the art section the other day I decided to rearrange all our essays on art.  In this section we have a variety of biographies on artists, books on art and architecture, and books on the contemporary art world.  There are also books that tell the stories of stolen art and [...]

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As an Art History major I took all the classes that I could on Ancient and Medieval Art and Architecture.  The most interesting classes to me were the ones that began in 3200 BC.  For me the older the subject the better.  Needless to say, though I was and still am interested in Contemporary art, I didn’t [...]

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