With works from 100 artists, this publication traces the epoch-making art movements of an entire century beginning and ending with a decided break with tradition. As early as 1914, a group of young British artists, the Voricists, in their magazine "Blast" propagated a style, which blended influences from French Cubism and Italian Futurism into an independent British Modernism. In turn, mavericks such as Henry Moore and Francis Bacon are unthinkable without the British Primitivists and Surrealists of the 20s and 30s. The specifically British strand of Pop Art began with the legendary exhibitions of the Independent Group in the 50s. In the 80s New British Sculpture emerged, represented by important exponents such as Tony Cragg and Antony Gormley. The Young British Artists and the show "Freeze" jointly organized by Damien Hirst and friends in London's Docklands in 1988 brings this historical survey to a close.