Piotr Piotrowski Awangarda w cieniu Jałty. Sztuka w Europie środkowo-wschodniej w latach 1945–89 (Avant-Garde in the Shadow of Yalta. Art in East-Central Europe, 1945–1989) 2005.

Authors

  • Piotr Bernatowicz Institute of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1788

Keywords:

Piotr Piotrowzki, Awangarda w cieniu Jałty. Sztuka w Europie środkowo-wschodniej w latach 1945-89, The Avant-Garde in the Shadow of Yalta. The Art in East-Central Europe, 1945-1989, Avant-Garde

Abstract

Mieczysław Porębski, a distinguished Polish art historian of the 20th century, once expressed the demand for Polish art history to be researched simultaneously with foreign studies - as parallel fields. "We entered the research field of the old masters' art as partners in, so to say, a ‘furnished household', whereas in the field of contemporary art we are co-explorers, exploring a ‘virgin land'", as Porębski put it. The book by professor Piotr Piotrowski Awangarda w cieniu Jałty. Sztuka w Europie środkowo-wschodniej w latach 1945-89 (The Avant-Garde in the Shadow of Yalta. The Art in East-Central Europe, 1945-1989) fully accomplishes this demanding postulate which nowadays seems to be rather rarely remembered by Polish art historians. The explored area, the East-Central European countries, which emerged, as a result of the Yalta Conference, between the iron curtain and the border of The Soviet Union (including former Yugoslavia) appears at least as an ‘old maiden' land, where scientific penetration still seems to be necessary.

Author Biography

Piotr Bernatowicz, Institute of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University

Piotr Bernatowicz, Ph.D., is an art historian and critic. He is a lecturer at Institute of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University and the editor-in-chief of ARTeon, a Polish art magazine devoted to contemporary art. He published the book Picasso behind the Iron Curtain: The Reception of Pablo Picasso in the Central and Eastern European Countries 1945-1970 in 2006.

Published

2007-05-01

How to Cite

Bernatowicz, Piotr. 2007. “ 1945–1989) 2005”. Nordlit, no. 21 (May):293-99. https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1788.