Artist

Peter Kuper

Nationality

American

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Date of Work

2008

Medium

Serigraph

Edition #

10 of 45

Signature

Lower right

Height

21 1/2"

Width

15"

Collection/Provenance

Art & Design Study Collection

Status

Stored: R05

Location

UND Art Collections Repository

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

Additional information provided by Prakash Pathak:

Peter Kuper (American, b. 1958)

This is Not a Pipe, 2008

Lithograph

Produced at UND through Sundog Multiples with funding from the Myers Foundations

University Art Collections: Art & Design Study Collection

Peter Kuper is an American comic artist and an illustrator. He is best known for World War 3 Illustrated, a political comic magazine. His work regularly appears in numerous newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, The Nation, and Mad.

In this work, Kuper appropriates a famous work by Magritte to express his criticism towards the President of the United States at the time. This print was produced by the artist at the Department of Art and Design’s printmaking facility while he visited UND on March 26, 2008 during the 39th Annual Writers Conference.

Rights

Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”

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