The history of the artistic-political movements of the twentieth century is full of anarchist manifestos and is full of fascinating and turbulent characters, often due - and not only ideally - to the activities of ultra-traditional political groups. With an immediate and irreverent language, Stewart Home traces the common thread that ties together the different avant-gardes after surrealism, providing an account of the vivid colors of the events of Cobra, Lettrism, the Situationist International and Fluxus, Pataphysics and Painting industrial, of the Dutch provo and of the American hippie, up to embrace more recent phenomena like the mail art, the Neoism and the punk.