individual works

Standalone artistic pieces

Individual works refers to separate, distinct creative or intellectual productions—each standing on its own rather than as part of a collection or series.

The term appears in copyright law, academic citation, and library cataloging to distinguish single pieces from anthologies or compilations: The anthology contains twelve individual works by different authors.

In art contexts, it distinguishes unique pieces from editions or reproductions.

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artifact · painting · oil painting · fresco · blueprint · song · musical composition · thesis · essay · photograph · tapestry · play · short film · sculpture · art installation · invention · poem · short story

Opposites
scope/completeness

individual workscomplete works

Entire literary output

collected works · oeuvre · corpus · total output · life's work

organization/collection

individual worksanthology

Collected literary works volume

compilation · omnibus · collected edition · compendium · collection

Family

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