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Yes, I think it's interesting to look at art books (and in this case magazines) and see how the design of these publications have changed.
In art books printed more than 20 or 30 years ago, colour printing techniques seem rather limited in that colours are not that true to the original. And the colour printing must have been expensive, since even high quality academic art books still had many of the pictures printed in monochrome rather than colour.
For instructional art books, design and layour and use of colour seemed to get better in the 1980s.