Sztuka i Naród (ˈʂtuka i ˈnarud; Art and Nation) was a Polish

Poland

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 monthly published covertly in Warsaw

Warsaw

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, occupied Poland

General Government

The General Government was an area of Second Republic of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II; designated as a separate region of the Third Reich between 1939–1945...

 during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. It was supported by the resistance group Konfederacja Narodu

Konfederacja Narodu

Konfederacja Narodu was one of the Polish resistance organizations in occupied Poland during World War II. KN was created in 1940 by far-right National Radical Camp political party from several smaller underground organizations, including the Secret Polish Army...

. It was published from April 1942 to Warsaw Uprising

Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army , to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces...

 in August 1944. 16 issues were published. It was the only Polish underground publication, dedicated to cultural matters, that was regularly published for such a long period of time.

Editors-in-chief:

1. Bronisław Onufry Kopczyński (ps. "Stefan Barwiński") – arrested in January 1943, died in April that year
2. Wacław Bojarski
   Wacław Bojarski
   Wacław Bojarski, pseudonym "Czarnota" was Polish poet belonging to the Generation of Columbuses and the Konfederacja Narodu underground organization. During the Second World War he studied in the Warsaw underground university. He was the editor in chief of the monthly magazine Sztuka i Naród...
   
    (ps. "Jan Marzec", "Wojciech Wierzejewski", "Marek Zalewski") - wounded in May 1943, died in June that year
3. Andrzej Trzebiński (ps. "Stanisław Łomień", "Paweł Późny") - Arrested and executed in October 1943
4. Tadeusz Gajcy
   Tadeusz Gajcy
   Tadeusz Stefan Gajcy was a Polish poet and Armia Krajowa soldier.He co-founded and edited the bibuła literary magazine, Sztuka i Naród...
   
    (ps. "Karol Topornicki", "Roman Oścień") - till the last issue, died in the Warsaw Uprising

Most of activists of SiN were related to the underground Warsaw University. Notable writers publishing in SiN included: Bernard Wojciech Mencl, Zdzisław Leon Stroiński, Stanisław Marczak-Oborski, Jerzy Zagórski

Jerzy Zagórski

Jerzy Zagórski was a Polish poet, essayist and translator. Member of literary group Żagary. Awarded the Righteous Among the Nations together with his wife Maria Zagórska, translator of belles-lettres....

 and Lesław Marian Bartelski.

The magazine supported the radical and national philosophies, and was critical of some pre-war trends; in particular, it criticized the Skamander

Skamander

Skamander was a Polish group of experimental poets founded in 1918 by Julian Tuwim, Antoni Słonimski, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Kazimierz Wierzyński and Jan Lechoń....

group of Polish writers.

Further reading

• Małgorzata Bartyzel, Sztuka i Naród w Wielkim Teatrze Świata, Marszałek, 2007, ISBN 8374410361