title: Horizontal art history: problems and prospects of Piotr Piotrovsky’s concept
abstract: In the article, the author examines the approach to writing art history - horizontal history, proposed and practiced by Piotr Piotrovsky since 1998. Horizontal art history is another paradigm for writing the art history of Central and Eastern Europe, according to which the art of this region is not analyzed in a center-periphery hierarchy/vertical. The methods applied by Western theory to the study of the art of this region must also be reexamined. Piotrovsky criticizes the inclusion of the art 
journal: Text and Image Essential Problems in Art History