An art book may mean a conventional book on art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 or art history

Art history

Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...

, or an artist's book, which is a work of art in the form of a book, usually produced in a small limited edition, often not just using normal printing

Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....

 techniques. The term might also cover graphic novel

Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

s, books of anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 and other types of graphics

Graphics

Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings,or...

, or books of fine art photography

Fine art photography

Fine art photography refers to photographs that are created in accordance with the creative vision of the photographer as artist. Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism, which provides a visual account for news events, and commercial photography, the primary focus of which is to...

. It is not generally used for illuminated manuscript

Illuminated manuscript

An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders and miniature illustrations...

s, though these are both art and books.

Art book publishers

• Electa Milano, Italy
• Thames and Hudson
• Phaidon Press
  Phaidon Press
  Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide.As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo...
  
  
• Abbeville Press, NY, USA
• Ertuğ & Kocabıyık, Istanbul, Turkey
  Ahmet Ertuğ
  Ahmet Ertuğ is a fine art photographer and publisher based in Istanbul, Turkey.He was trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He specializes in large format photography of architectural and archaeological edifices of theHellenistic, Roman,...
  
  

External links

• Artbook Collection Reviews