Nationality
American
Artist Dates
b. 1958
Title of Work
Franz Kafka, Give it Up—a suite of five prints: Image 5
Preview
Date of Work
2008
Medium
Screenprint
Edition #
16/35
Signature
Lower right
Height
32 1/2" (framed)
Width
25" (framed)
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection
Status
Displayed: Second floor, hallway of INMED, next to Copy Room E269
Location
School of Medicine & Health Sciences Building
Artist Bio
Peter Kuper, who has been a visiting artist at UND, is a New York alternative cartoonist and graphic novelist. He is perhaps best known for taking over Mad magazine's Spy vs. Spy (beginning in 1977), but his illustrations and comics also appear regularly in Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times. Furthermore, he is a co-founder of the political graphics magazine, World War 3 Illustrated. Kuper has produced over twenty books including adaptions of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Give it Up.
Additional Information
Perhaps best known for taking over Mad magazine’s Spy vs. Spy (beginning in 1997), Peter Kuper is a New York alternative cartoonist and graphic novelist. The suite of screenprints on display is based on Kuper’s 1995 graphic novel of the same name—which in turn appropriates a short (126-word) literary work by Kafka.