《现代艺术大师》是英国广播公司BBC推出的一档电视系列节目，它由四部分组成，分别详细介绍了20世纪的四位重要的艺术大师：安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warhol）、马蒂斯（Henri Matisse）、毕加索（Pablo Picasso）和达利（Salvador Dali）的工作与生活。在片中，镜头跟随主持人Alastair Sooke的脚步，走访了四位艺术家们生前的居所、艺廊及博物馆，甚至是他们最爱的餐厅等地，向观众展示了他们伟大的艺术贡献以及惊人的后世影响力。环顾四周，麦当娜的专辑封面、米菲兔的文具、甚至是你家的沙发和电话，也许就来源于这四位大师的创作……

The century that changed art forever. This is the quintessential roundup of art from 1900-2000. Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so many times over the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political, and technological meanings. Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlight relationships between works and movements, this readable and encyclopaedic masterwork does just what it says on the cover. Whether you want Surrealism or Land Art, Fluxus or Bauhaus, this is your be-all, end-all guide to art of the 20th century. An undertaking as immensely ambitious as this one deserves to be owned by everyone, which is why we decided to make a special, more compact edition in celebration of our 25th anniversary.