The arrangement was called An Oak Tree and included wall text that asked viewers to resist the temptation to think it was a glass of water. ... Michael Craig-Martin, An Oak Tree, 1973.

Martin is able to transform the glass to an oak tree in much the same way that Crouch, as a playwright, summons the transformation from person to actor to character. As Martin doesn’t change “the ...

Craig-Martin's early works are "classics" of conceptual art, said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian.The first thing we see here is 1973's "An Oak Tree": the work consists of a glass of water on a ...

When Dublin-born artist Michael Craig-Martin began studying art in the ‘50s, ... and an accompanying text that explains why it is actually an oak tree.

If Craig-Martin’s failure to build on his Seventies success with An Oak Tree – to create a “body of work” around that seminal piece – had frustrated him at the time, it proved a ...

At 83, you could forgive Michael Craig-Martin for grumbling that it’s about time he was given a career-spanning retrospective. ... An Oak Tree (1973) – a glass of water on a shelf, ...

"Michael Craig-Martin und Raymond Pettibon", Kunstverein f¸r die Rheinlande, Dusseldorf (site specific installation). 1995 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (site specific installation) 1994 ...

Inspired by Michael Craig-Martin’s 1973 conceptual artwork that insists a glass of water is an oak tree, ... An Oak Tree is at the Young Vic, London, until Saturday, May 24th.

Famously named after the 1973 Michael Craig-Martin artwork ... Production name An Oak Tree. Venue Royal Lyceum Theatre Studio. Location Edinburgh. Starts 04/08/2023. Ends 27/08/2023.