I love books about art including books about individual artists. But I wonder why they’re often the size of a coffee table and weigh as much as a Rottweiler. Why such dense prose in tiny fonts? So when making my own art books I go for a light-weight book design and few words.
Take my recent book “Dogs by Sue Clancy” for example. It’s 8.5 x 11 inches when closed. And it weighs about 5 ounces. There are 245 words total. And that includes the ISBN info.
You can read my book while holding it in the air above the dog (or cat) currently sleeping on your lap.
Here’s a link with more info about the book: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Dogs-By-Sue-Clancy
Here are some pictures of “Dogs by Sue Clancy”.
And I’m sure my long time fans will also recognize that in my art book titled “Coffee Table Book” that I played with my whole heavy-coffee-table-size book peeve by deliberately making an art book for smart-phones. More about that here: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/coffee-table-book
Yours in being able to read a book about art without needing a hoist or crane.