NAPIÓRSKA Agata - HA-Ga. Pictures from life. [Anna Goslawska-Lipinska]

Author: NAPIÓRSKA Agata

Title: HA-Ga. Pictures from life.

• Place of publication: Warsaw
• Year of publication: 2022
• Publisher: Marginesy
• Number of pages: 341, [3].
• Illustrations, maps: numerous illustrations in the text
• Size: 22 cm
• Binding: soft
• Condition: very good
• ISBN: 9788367510547

Description:

Under the pseudonym Ha-Ga is Anna Goslawska-Lipinska, a long-time satirical cartoonist of "Szpilek". No other artist had such a long and regular series in any magazine. For forty years, drawings of distinctive humanoids with bulging eyes appeared in "Szpilki" every week. The caption usually included an overheard conversation or satire on the current moral or social situation. Although Ha-Ga created in the 1950s and 1960s, her jokes are timeless and delightfully topical. She had a great ear, able to pick out witty sentences during encounters in cafes, on the street, in a store or on the beach. She also illustrated children's books - including Tuwim's and Brzechwa's - and worked with "Świerszczyk" for many years.

Why did she not enter the canon of the Polish School of Illustration? What caused her career to abruptly cease?

In the biography of this outstanding artist, Agata Napiórska recalls the pre-war times when Ha-Ga sat at Gombrowicz's table and was friends with Tuwim, writes about the peak of her popularity in the 1950s and the decline of her career in the 1970s, her friendships and loves, and her life in the shadow of her husband, the famous graphic designer Eryk Lipinski. The book also reveals an intimate picture of the cartoonist's relationship with her daughter, Zuzanna Lipinski.

It also includes a bibliography and footnotes.