Michael Craig Martin

"Michael Craig-Martin is one of the most influential and successful British artists of recent decades. Born in Dublin in 1941, Craig-Martin grew up in the United States and studied fine art at Yale University in the early 1960s, before returning to Britain to become a leading first-generation conceptual artist with such seminal works as An Oak Tree. By the end of the 1970s he had created his signature vocabulary of everyday objects depicted in crisp outline in a variety of different forms and mediums, from neon pieces, paintings and sculptures to large-scale wall drawings and highly coloured wall-painting installations and site-specific environments. Published to coincide with a major exhibition of his work at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, [the book] is a retrospective of the artist's entire career. Including everything from his early student work to the very latest site-specific installations, it is the most complete monograph on Craig-Martin ever published." - dust jacket.