ABSTRACT
The concept of horizontal art history is one of many ideas on how to conduct nonhierarchical art historical analysis that have been developed in different geopolitical locations since at least the 1970s, parallel to the ongoing process of decolonisation. The horizontal history of art is a situated concept, born in the specific context of post-communist Poland, created by a particular person with a distinct history and personality. The relationship between horizontal art history and the alter-globalist one was never clearly problematised by Piotrowski himself; nevertheless, it likely well reflects shortages of the former that Piotrowski was becoming aware of. During the period, the people were working on a volume, an English translation of the last, unfinished book by Piotr Piotrowski was prepared to be published by the Igor Zabel Association.
