Piotr Piotrowski obituary

My friend and colleague Piotr Piotrowski, who has died aged 53 after suffering from leukaemia, was a leading Polish art historian and scholar of 20th-century art. His many provocative texts, including his most recent books In the Shadow of Yalta; Art and Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 (2009), and Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (2012), made modern art in east central Europe the subject of international research.Piotr was also a model engaged intellectual, who not only resist