My parents gave me The Art Museum for Christmas, and it is just about the most amazing book ever made. It's giant: 18" x 13", almost 1,000 pages, almost 3,000 high-quality color photos. It's the Platonic Ideal of an art museum--except that it's in book form. You really want this book.
I have run into a couple of problems, though. For one, it's expensive. It lists for $200, and even on Amazon will cost you at least a hundred. Compare this to college textbooks, though, and I think it seems a bit more reasonable. Also, it weighs in at 18 pounds. Due to its oversized pages and weight, I literally have no bookshelf for this in my house. If I had a larger coffee table and no small children in the house, it would be prominently displayed. As it is, I keep it on the floor under our desk and pull it out from time to time. But I'll be looking at this book for years and years. It has everything.
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