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The relation between the image and the text in illustrated literary works is an interesting phenomenon. Poetry focuses primarily on transmitting inner experiences, impressions and emotions. It might seem, therefore, that illustrators creating pictures for collections of poems would look for visual equivalents for feelings expressed in them. An analysis of illustrated post-war editions of Julian Tuwim’s works indicates that graphic artists not always tried to translate poetry into images; often they would make realistic illustrations depicting the world presented in the poems.
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With the introduction of socialist realism as the official creative method, satire was given new tasks. It was to become a weapon in the class struggle and facilitate the building of a new life in Poland. Illustrations for satirical texts also had to comply with the principles of the socialist realism doctrine. Illustrated editions and anthologies of political satire shows and satirical texts are particularly interesting. Graphics created in 1950–1953 followed the guidelines of the new ideology. They depicted the opposition of the socialist and capitalist worlds, where the former was idealised and the latter belittled. Later drawings often criticised the faults of the new system. Their authors ridiculed boring party meetings, propaganda language and everyday absurdity. Political changes that took place in Poland over that ten-year period were clearly reflected in the illustrations of satirical texts.
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In the first post-war decade the doctrine of socialist realism was mandatory in literature and all spheres of art — including book illustrations. Literature was to educate advocates of the new system. New tasks were also set for illustrations. They were to represent the most important issues and problems in Poland at the time, and present workers — the builders of socialism. Such postulates were present in articles dealing with book graphics published in the press at the time. They were successfully implemented in popular editions of literature published in the “Biblioteka Żołnierza” (“A Soldier’s Library”) and “Książka Nowego Czytelnika” (“New Readers’ Books”) series, and in some special editions. Drawings included in those publications illustrated operating factories and agricultural cooperatives, workers and farmers and work, bricklayers rebuilding the country after the havoc wreaked by war, fight against class enemies, peace demonstrations, as well as happy families and happy children. These were typical and unequivocal representations, imposing preconceived interpretations on the readers. The illustrations, closely linked to the literary text, were to strengthen its impact. The book functioned as a whole, as a new form of transmission of ideas promoted by the authorities at the time.
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