Art is in every book you read. Marcel Duchamp, notorious in the art world for having successfully argued that a urinal is art—thus ushering in the Avant Garde—would probably agree with me. Monsieur Duchamp aside,  images are both essential and important for all modern-day book covers. They’re the first and most obvious means authors and publishers inject art into books. And because covers are what may initially attract a potential reader, they help sell books.

The body of a  book may also includ...