Laura Morowitz 38 Morningside Road Verona, New Jersey 07044 (973) 495 8599 [email protected]
CURRENT TITLE: Professor of Art History Department of Art, Art History and Film Wagner College, New York
GRANTS: Fondation Mémorial de Shoah, 2021 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Stipend, 2017 Hadassah-Brandeis Research Award, 2011
BOOKS: IN PROGRESS:.Erasures and Eradications in Viennese Modern Art, Architecture and Design. Co-edited with Megan Brandow-Faller.Routledge Press, Forthcoming, 2022
The Miracles of Prato. Co-authored with Laurie Albanese. William Morrow. 2009.
Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin de Siècle France. Co-authored with Elizabeth Emery. Ashgate/Scolar Press. 2003.
Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century. Co-edited with William Vaughan. Ashgate/Scolar Press. 2001.
MS. UNDER CONSIDERATION: Art, Exhibition and Erasure in Nazi Vienna
ARTICLES and CHAPTERS
“Art as a Source for Studying the Holocaust,” Sources for Studying the Holocaust: A Guide for Students, ed. Paul Bartrop. Routledge Press, forthcoming 2022.
“Reviled, Repressed, Resurrected: Vienna 1900 in the Nazi Imaginary,” Austrian History Yearbook. vol. 52. Forthcoming, 2022.
“Ostmark as Bulwark and Other Myths of the Anschluss,” Contemporary Austrian History. Special Issue: “Myths in Austrian History”, eds. Günter Bischof, Christian Karner and Mark Landry, UNO Press,vol 29, 2020.
“From l’Exposition des primitifs français to Les primitifs allemands : French Discourse on the primitifs 1904-1910” Primitive Renaissances: Northern European and Germanic Art at the Fin de Siècle to the1930s,ed. Juliet Simpson Ashgate Press, forthcoming 2022.
“The Arcades Project, Copia, and the American Consumer” Cultural Critique, 101 (1) Fall 2018.
“Regarder vers le haut. Le Conquête de l’air et le future de l’homme” Françoise Lucbert and Yves Chevrefils Desbiolles (eds.), Par-delà le cubisme. Études sur Roger de La Fresnaye, suivies de correspondances de l’artiste, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2017.
“‘Heil the Hero Klimt: Nazi Aesthetics in Vienna and the 1943 Gustav Klimt Retrospective’” Oxford Art Journal 39/1 (March 2016)
“Primitif and Primitive” Critical Terms in Medieval Studies,, eds. Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz, Boydell and Brewer, 2014.
“Wanamaker’s, Munkáscy and the Depiction of Christ” Art Bulletin XCI no. 2 (June 2009).
“The Cathedral of Commerce: French Gothic Architecture and Wanamaker’s Department Store” Medieval Art and Architecture After the Middle Ages, eds. Janet Marquardt and Alyce Jordan, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.
“The Monster Within: The Munsters, the Addams Family and the American Family in the 1960s” Critical Studies in Television 3 (Fall 2007).
“A Home is a Woman’s Castle: Ladies’ Journals and Do-It-Yourself Medievalism in the Fin de Siècle” Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide Vol 5 no 2 (August 2006).
“La Conquête de l’air: The “right” brothers: les frères Wright ou les frères Kapferer?” Catalogue essay in Françoise Lucbert et al, Roger de la Fresnaye: Cubisme et Tradition, Musée Le Mans/Museu Picasso, 2005.
“An Interview with Alina Troyano/Carmelita Tropicana” Letras Femininas: Encuentros Trans-atlánticos, ed. Katica Urbanc, 2005.
“Medievalism, Classicism and French Nationalism: The Appropriation of the French Primitifs in Turn-of-the-Century France” Collected papers of the Symposium,Nationalism and French Visual Culture 1870-1914 Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Yale University Press, 2005.
“From the Living Room to the Museum and Back Again: The Collection and Display of Medieval Art in the Fin de Siècle” (with Elizabeth Emery) Journal of the History of Collections vol. 16 no. 2 (2004).
“Une Guerre Sainte Contre l’Académisme: Louis Courajod, the Louvre and the Barbaric Middle Ages” The Year’s Work in Medievalism, ed. Gwendolyn A. Morgan, Vol. XVII (2003).
“From Gauguin to Gilligan’s Island” Critiquing the Sitcom. Syracuse University Press. Ed. Joanne Morreale. 2002.
“From Gauguin to Gilligan's Island" Journal of Popular Film and Television 26 (1) (Spring 1998).
"Zola's Le Rêve: Symbolism and Medievalism at the Fin-de-Siècle" Excavatio IX. (1997).
"Anti-Semitism, Medievalism and the Art of the Fin-de-Siècle," Oxford Art Journal 20 (Spring 1997).
"Anonymity, Artistic Brotherhoods and the Art Market" Art Criticism Vol. 11 no 2 (Fall 1996).
REVIEWS Book Review, Megan Brandow-Faller, Female Secession: Art and the Decorative and the Viennese Women’s Academy Austrian Studies (forthcoming 2021)
Book Review, Gundolf Graml, Revisiting Austria: Tourism, Space and National Identity 1945 to the Present Contemporary Austrian Studies 30 (Spring 2021)
Exhibition Review, “The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin” The Jewish Museum, March 17 to August 6, 2017 Modernism/Modernity, 24 (4) (Nov. 2017).
Book Review. Alon Confino, A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide Journal of European Studies 45/4 (December 2016).
Book Review. Jonathan Petropoulos, Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival In Nazi Germany Art History 38/5 (November 2015).
Book Review, Kathryn Brown, Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890: A Space for the Imagination Nineteenth Century French Studies 42/4 (June 2014).
Book Review, Katherine Kuenzli, The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at the Fin de Siècle, H-France, (August 2011).
Book Review. Symbolist Objects: Materiality and Subjectivity at the Fin de Siècle, ed. Clare I. R. Mahoney. Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide. Vol. 9 issue 2, (Autumn 2010).
Book Review. Regarding Romantic Rome, ed. Richard Wrigly. CAA Reviews. (July 21 2010).
Book Review, A Paradise Closer to Home: Gauguin’s Nirvana: Painters at Le Pouldu 1888-1890 Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 27 No. 1 (Spring 2004).
Exhibition Review, "Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream,"Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Bulletin LXXXII no.2 (June 2000) .
Exhibition Review. "Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal Art Journal (Spring 1996).
SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZER With Professor Lori Weintrob, “Heroines of the Holocaust: New Frameworks of Resistance”. An International Symposium of Scholars, Writers, Artists and Filmmakers. June 2-3 2021 Wagner College and the Wagner College Holocaust Center, New York City.
EXHIBITION CURATOR Wagner College Holocaust Center Action and Education Center Co-wrote and Co-curated all Permanent Exhibition Displays (with Dr. Lori Weintrob) Opening: Fall 2019.
The Enslaved Children of Lake Volta: Evan Robbins and Breaking the Chain Through Education Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Human Rights Institute, Kean University March 1-31 2016.
SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTOR On Air Interviewee and scholarly contributor to “The American Sitcom” CNN Documentary Airdate: 2022.
PAPERS “Austrian Art without Austria? Maler der Ostmark or Ars Austriae?” National and PostNational Perspectives on Austria Austrian Studies Association Poznan, Poland June 2021(Covid postponement)
“Erasing the City: the 1939 Bergen und Menschen der Ostmark Ausstellung” Panel: “New Work on the Third Reich” German Studies Association Portland, Oregan October 2021 (Covid postponement)
“The schöne Wienerin, the Deutsche mädchen, and the absent Jewess: portraiture and cultural politics in Nazi Vienna” Austrian Studies Association Bowling Green State University April 13, 2019.
“Expropriated Art and Erased Memory: The 1943 Gustav Klimt Retrospective in Anschluss Vienna” in Panel “The Mobile Lives of People and Things in Modern Austrian History: World War II and its Aftermath” German Studies Association 41st Annual Conference University of Pittsburgh, September 30, 2018.
“Ostmark als Bulmark: Austrian Mountains and the East in the Nazi Imaginary” “Austria and the East/Österreich und der Osten” Austrian Studies Association Annual Conference University of Vermont June 29, 2018.
“Alt-Deutsch and Avant-Garde: The Prints of Josef Sattler” Gothic Modernisms Symposium Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam June 29, 2017.
Co-Chair, w. Megan Brandow-Faller, Erasures and Eradications in Viennese Modernism College Art Association New York February 15, 2017.
“Art of Deception: Jews, Aryans and Art” Invited Speaker, Bernard Klein Memorial Lecture Kingsborough Community College November 9, 2016
“Erasing Fin de Siècle Vienna :The 1943 Gustav Klimt Retrospective and the Remaking of an Artistic Hero” Art, Conflict and the Politics of Memory Duke University November 7, 2014.
“The Exposition des Primitifs français (1904) and Les Primitifs allemands (1910): Franco- British Discourse on the ‘Primitives’ 1900-1910” “Primitive Renaissances: Northern European and Germanic Art at the Fin de Siècle to the 1930s.” In association with Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance The National Gallery, London: 19 February-11 May 2014) The National Gallery, London April 12, 2014 .
“A Mass for the Masses: Munkácsy’s Passion Paintings and the 23rd Street Tabernacle” “They Who Gathered Much: Artists, Audiences and Collectors of Biblical Art,” Dahesh Museum/Museum of Biblical Art January 17, 2014.
“Une lutte contre le lieu commun: Les confréries artistiques des années 1930 et leurs prédécesseurs,” “Journée d’etudes autour l’exposition ‘Marcel Michaud: Les Poids du monde’” Communautés artistiques, communautés spirituelles dans le context politique des années 1930-1940. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon et l’Institute National d’Histoire de l’Art January 2,1 2012.
“The Contrada and the Condo: The Siena of Montclair” . “Consuming the Renaissance in Popular Culture” College Art Association, Hyatt, Chicago February 13, 2010.
“Between the Romantic and the Systematic Middle Ages: Paul Lacroix’s Les Arts du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance” Medieval Art and Taxonomy, French Historical Studies, Society for French History, University of Boulder October 23, 2009.
“Painting, Passion and Piety in Renaissance Prato: The Art and Life of Filippo Lippi” The Berger Lectures. Manhattanville College October 14, 2009.
“Stirring up Passions: The Reception of Munkácsy’s Christ Paintings In Late Nineteenth Century France” College Art Association, 2007. February 2007 New York, New York
“A Passion for Theater: Max Reinhardt’s “The Miracle and 1920s New York” 21st Annual Conference in Medievalism Ohio State University, October 16, 2006.
“The Cathedral of Commerce: French Gothic Architecture and Wanamaker’s Department Store” International Center for Medieval Art, Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting Boston/Cambridge. Massachusetts April, 2006.
“Quelques découvertes sur le tableau La Conquête de l’air” Colloque Roger de la Fresnaye Musées du Mans/l’Université du Maine January 21 2006.
“A Home is a Woman’s Castle: Ladies Journals and Do-It-Yourself Medievalism in the Fin de Siècle” Thirty-First Annual Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference. University of Austin, Texas October 27-29, 2005.
“The Art of Scorn: Léon Bloy’s La Femme Pauvre” “French Art in Narrative and Drama from 1820,” Sixth Annual Conference. Centre for the Study of Visual and Literary Cultures in France University of Bristol, UK February 27, 2005.
“Pride and Prejudice: Edouard Drumont’s Les Fêtes Nationales à France” 2004 Romance Studies Colloquium Jersey City, New Jersey October 14, 2004.
“When is a Vandal not a Vandal? Louis Courajod and the ‘Re-Rescue’ of Medieval Art” 28th Annual Mid-America Medieval Association University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. February 7, 2004.
“Observing the Observer: Eyewitness biographies of Toulouse-Lautrec” “Writing the Life of the Nineteenth Century Artist” College Art Association, New York. February 20, 2003.
“Consumer Medievalism: Fin de Siècle Paris and the Marketing of Medievalism” Studies in Medievalism University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. October 19, 2002.
“Louis Courajod, the Louvre, and the Barbaric Middle Ages” “Making the Middle Ages: Nineteenth-Century Medievalisms” Thirty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University May 2, 2002.
“Medievalism and Nationalism: The 1904 Exposition des Primitifs français” “Nationalism and French Visual Culture 1889-1914” Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. National Gallery, Washington, D.C. February 19, 2002.
"Celtic Medievalism, Nationalism and the Avant-Garde" “Historicizing the Nation: The Middle Ages and the 19th-Century Nationalist Imaginary” Thirty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University May 6, 1999.
"Making the Medieval in the 1890s: Louis de Fourcaud, Louis Courajod and Emile Mâle" Studies in Medievalism Rochester, New York. October 10, 1998.
Chair, "Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century" College Art Association, Toronto, Ontario. February, 1998.
"Zola the Symbolist?" Modern Language Association, Toronto, Ontario December 28, 1997.
"At the Crossroads of Modernity: the Nabis" Christie's Education Program, Christie's, New York November 9, 1997.
"Medieval Mania: Stained Glass, Tapestries and the Art of the Fin-de-Siècle" College Art Association, New York, New York February 1997.