Taschen Basic Art

Taschen Basic Art is a best selling art collection books, published by Taschen, starting in 1985. Each book looks at a different artist, with a biography, and illustrations of their work. The books are published as affordable hardcover books of 21 x 26 cm., 78 titles had been published. Similar series entitled Taschen Basic Architecture, Taschen Basic Cinema and Taschen Basic Photographies were started after the success of the Basic Art series.

In the spring of 2014, Taschen's Basic Art series received major criticism in Swedish media for its focus on male artists. The series then consisted of 95 books, only five of which were of female artists. The artists Ditte Ejlerskov and EvaMarie Lindahl highlighted the disparity with an art installation at Malmö Konsthall in Sweden.

Featured artists and topics

 * 1920s Berlin
 * Abstract Art
 * Abstract Expressionism
 * Tadao Ando
 * Francis Bacon
 * Jean-Michel Basquiat
 * Bauhaus
 * Hieronymus Bosch
 * Fernando Botero
 * Marcel Breuer
 * Die Brücke
 * Pieter Bruegel the Elder
 * Santiago Calatrava
 * Caravaggio
 * Case Study Houses
 * Paul Cézanne
 * Christo and Jeanne-Claude
 * Cubism
 * Salvador Dalí
 * Edgar Degas
 * Marcel Duchamp
 * James Ensor
 * M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
 * Expressionism
 * F. L. Wright
 * Lucian Freud
 * Caspar David Friedrich
 * Antoni Gaudí
 * Paul Gauguin
 * Francisco de Goya
 * Keith Haring
 * Hiroshige
 * Edward Hopper
 * Friedensreich Hundertwasser
 * Impressionism
 * Frida Kahlo
 * Wassily Kandinsky
 * Paul Klee
 * Le Corbusier
 * Leonardo da Vinci
 * Roy Lichtenstein
 * Louis I. Kahn
 * Charles Rennie Mackintosh
 * René Magritte
 * Kazimir Malevich
 * Édouard Manet
 * Henri Matisse
 * Michelangelo
 * Mies van der Rohe
 * Joan Miró
 * Amedeo Modigliani
 * Claude Monet
 * William Morris
 * Alphonse Mucha
 * Richard Neutra
 * Oscar Niemeyer
 * Georgia O'Keeffe
 * Jackson Pollock
 * Pop Art
 * Raphael
 * Rembrandt
 * Diego Rivera
 * Norman Rockwell
 * Auguste Rodin
 * Peter Paul Rubens
 * Egon Schiele
 * Rudolph Michael Schindler
 * Surrealism
 * Blaue Reiter
 * Titian
 * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
 * J. M. W. Turner
 * Jan van Eyck
 * Vincent van Gogh
 * Diego Velázquez
 * Johannes Vermeer
 * Andy Warhol
 * What Great Paintings Say: Beautiful Nudes
 * What Great Paintings Say: Faces of Power
 * Yves Klein
 * Zaha Hadid
 * Vienna 1900
 * Henri Rousseau
 * August Macke
 * Hokusai
 * H. R. Giger
 * Jean Prouvé
 * Giorgio de Chirico
 * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
 * John Lautner
 * Pierre-Auguste Renoir
 * Marc Chagall
 * Walter Gropius
 * Renzo Piano
 * Gerhard Richter
 * Piet Mondrian
 * Gustav Klimt
 * Charles and Ray Eames
 * Alvar Aalto
 * Max Ernst
 * What Great Paintings Say: Italian Renaissance
 * Egyptian Art
 * Lucio Fontana
 * Eero Saarinen
 * Gio Ponti
 * Pierre Koenig
 * Futurism
 * Hans Holbein the Younger
 * Odilon Redon
 * Self-Portraits
 * Sandro Botticelli
 * Albert Frey
 * Tamara de Lempicka
 * Renaissance
 * Adolf Loos
 * Albrecht Dürer
 * El Greco
 * Edvard Munch
 * Richard Meier
 * Pre-Raphaelites
 * Dadaism
 * Jeff Koons
 * Mark Rothko