art book
Illustrated museum catalog
An art book is a volume featuring visual artwork—paintings, photographs, illustrations, or design—where images dominate over text.
Coffee table books showcasing a photographer's work or museum catalogs of an exhibition are typical examples.
Art books emphasize high-quality reproduction and often serve as reference works or collectible objects: She picked up an art book on Impressionism at the museum gift shop.
- catalogOrdered list of items
- gallerySpace for displaying artwork
- illustrationPicture explaining something
- color platesFull-hue printed illustrations
- printTransfer text to paper
limited edition · collection · coffee table · glossy · pages · full page · binding · museum · museum shop · exhibition · monograph · retrospective · photography · masterpiece · plates · hardcover · portfolio · reproductions
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, paperback, hardcover
- art educationdrawing lessons, painting lessons, painting classes, drawing class, RISD
- box extrasinstruction manual, poster, sticker, map, demo disc
- art references
- coffee table bookshardcovers, monographs, retrospectives, collector editions, limited editions
- collectionscollection, collections, anthology, anthologies, compilation
art booknovel
New and unusual
textbook · technical manual · phone book · dictionary · encyclopedia
art bookpulp fiction
Sensational cheap literature
dime novel · airport novel · penny dreadful · tabloid · comic book
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