Taschen Basic Art is a 17-book series with 17 released primary works first released in 1978 with contributions by Janis Mink, Rainer Metzger, Ingo F. Walther, Gilles Néret, Bernd Growe, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Werner Kriegeskorte, Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen, Rainer Hagen, Ulrike Becks-Malorny, Hannah Weitemeier, Andrea Kettenmann, Rose-Marie Hagen, Norbert Wolf, Marianne Hanstein, and Barbara Hess.