Nationality
American
Title of Work
This is Not a Pipe
Preview
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
Displayed
Location
Columbia Hall, Honors Department
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.