A book should fulfill its function to be read and looked at. Excessive embellishments should not distract; attention to detail should be meticulous. Size, material, grid, hierarchy, typography, color, and rhythm emerge from understanding the content. In this way a book is desirable and useful – beauty, clarity, character and substance form a perfect whole.
Front matter
half title
title
copyright
contents
list of lenders
directors’ foreword
acknowledgments
Introduction
9 pages - Introduction text
7,500 words / 850 words per page
2 pages - Introduction notes
2,000 words / 1,500 words per page
4 pages - Introduction images
10 images (6 quarter, 4 half page)
Essays + Plates
18 pages - Six essays openers
4 documentary images each (3 pages) – 24 images total
99 pages - Six essays text
14,000 each, 84,000 words total / 850 words per page
12 pages - Six essays notes
3,000 each, 18,000 words total / 1,500 words per page
36 pages - Six essays figures
15 images each (7 quarter, 8 half page) – 90 images total
142 pages - Six essays plates
350 images total (218 quarter, 88 half, 44 full page)
Back matter
37 pages - Artist’s biographies text
32,000 words / 1,200 words per page
11 pages - Artist’s biographies images
eighth page image each for 44 biographies
44 pages - Chronology text and image
28,300 words, 55 images (page count based on alignment of years)
13 pages - Bibliography text
8,600 words / 680 words per page
12 pages - Checklist
350 images / 30 entries per pages
9 pages - Index
rough estimate / 890 words per page
464 pages - Total