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 #
Arist's Proof
Signature
Lower right
Height
30"
Width
22"
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
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.
Additional information provided by Stephany Dimoulas:
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. Kuper’s artistic work combines an alternative style of comics and illustrations, and often lacks the use of words. Peter Kuper was a visiting artist for UND in 2011.