Laura Morowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1082020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Morowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Morowitz |
| SIGNATURE | MOROWITZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wagner College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Contradictory Modernities and Neo-Romanticism Across Central Europe
This introductory chapter provides context to and a framing for this special issue. Building on an interdisciplinary workshop that took place in Poznan, Poland, in early 2023, the articles assembled here examine what we describe as a constitutive ambivalence that has structured Central European experiences of modernity. Bringing together historians, sociologists, art historians and literary scholars, our special issue foregrounds the continuing l…
Symbolism as Paradigm of Contradictory Modernity
Never has a movement been more contested and more conflicted than Symbolism. It is rife with reactionary elements and yet is often seen as the bridge, the necessary threshold, through which art needed to pass in order to arrive at modernism. Its artists, motifs and works were often enwrapped in a profound nostalgia and yet exhibited– indeed invented–some of the very hallmarks of visual modernism. Yet many of the Symbolist groups are tied to Neo-R…
The Eyewitness War Museum in the Netherlands
Since 2013, the Eyewitness War Museum (EWM) in Beek, the Netherlands, has been claiming to offer a ‘lifelike’ depiction of many of the central events of the years 1940 to 1945. While incorporating some video, soundtracks, and touchscreens, the heart of the museum is its thirteen largescale multifigure dioramas filled with war memorabilia, including uniforms, weapons, and everyday artifacts. Through the lifelike mannequins and the historical objec…
Consuming the Past
First published in 2003 Consuming the Past covers pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emile Zola, and explores the complexity of the fin-de-siècle French fascination with the Middle Ages. The authors map the cultural history of the period from the end of the Franco-Prussian war to the 1905 separation of Church and State illuminating the powerful appeal tha…
Waking from the Dream
Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century
The first artistic brotherhood - fraternite in the age of revolution, William Vaughan the Nazarene Gemeinschaft - Overbeck and Cornelius, Mitchell B. Frank the Pre-Raphaelite otherhood and group identity in Victorian Britain, Jason Rosenfeld the business of brotherhood - Morris, Marshall, Faulker & Company and the Pre-Raphaelite culture of youth, Amy Bingaman questions of identity at Abramatsevo, Rosalind Polly Gray envisioning the golden dawn - …
Heil the Hero Klimt!’
In the winter of 1943 the city of Vienna was no longer the capital of Austria, but one of the Gaue , or districts, of Ostmark, the easternmost regions of the Third Reich. The city was firmly under the rule of Baldur von Schirach, the former head of the Hitler Youth, the highest ranking Nazi in Vienna, and a man known as the ‘poet laureate’ of the Nazi party. The gold-domed Secession building, one of the most well-known icons of fin-de-siècle Vien…
Art of Deception
Medievalism
Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism. The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This…
The Monster Within
A Paradise Closer to Home
Gauguin's ‘Nirvana’: Painters at Le Pouldu, 1889–1890 EricZafran (ed.) : (Yale University Press: New Haven and London , 2001), 75 b&w illns, 186 hardback ISBN 0–300–08954–6, £45.00
From Gauguin to Gilligan's Island
In episode no. 34 of Gilligan's Island, “Goodbye Old Paint,”1 a Russian artist named Gregor Dulov is discovered living on the “deserted” island. After ten years of isolation from “Western civilization,” he refuses to return. Greed (fostered by the actions of the castaways) convinces Dulov that he should try to resume life back in Russia. The episode ends, however, with Dulov still “stuck” on the island, with no immediate mode of rescue in sight. …
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From Gauguin to Gilligan's Island
In episode no. 34 of Gilligan's Island, “Goodbye Old Paint,”1 a Russian artist named Gregor Dulov is discovered living on the “deserted” island. After ten years of isolation from “Western civilization,” he refuses to return. Greed (fostered by the actions of the castaways) convinces Dulov that he should try to resume life back in Russia. The episode ends, however, with Dulov still “stuck” on the island, with no immediate mode of rescue in sight. …
A Paradise Closer to Home
Gauguin's ‘Nirvana’: Painters at Le Pouldu, 1889–1890 EricZafran (ed.) : (Yale University Press: New Haven and London , 2001), 75 b&w illns, 186 hardback ISBN 0–300–08954–6, £45.00
The Monster Within
Medievalism
Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism. The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This…
Art of Deception
Heil the Hero Klimt!’
In the winter of 1943 the city of Vienna was no longer the capital of Austria, but one of the Gaue , or districts, of Ostmark, the easternmost regions of the Third Reich. The city was firmly under the rule of Baldur von Schirach, the former head of the Hitler Youth, the highest ranking Nazi in Vienna, and a man known as the ‘poet laureate’ of the Nazi party. The gold-domed Secession building, one of the most well-known icons of fin-de-siècle Vien…
Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century
The first artistic brotherhood - fraternite in the age of revolution, William Vaughan the Nazarene Gemeinschaft - Overbeck and Cornelius, Mitchell B. Frank the Pre-Raphaelite otherhood and group identity in Victorian Britain, Jason Rosenfeld the business of brotherhood - Morris, Marshall, Faulker & Company and the Pre-Raphaelite culture of youth, Amy Bingaman questions of identity at Abramatsevo, Rosalind Polly Gray envisioning the golden dawn - …
Consuming the Past
First published in 2003 Consuming the Past covers pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emile Zola, and explores the complexity of the fin-de-siècle French fascination with the Middle Ages. The authors map the cultural history of the period from the end of the Franco-Prussian war to the 1905 separation of Church and State illuminating the powerful appeal tha…
Waking from the Dream
The Eyewitness War Museum in the Netherlands
Since 2013, the Eyewitness War Museum (EWM) in Beek, the Netherlands, has been claiming to offer a ‘lifelike’ depiction of many of the central events of the years 1940 to 1945. While incorporating some video, soundtracks, and touchscreens, the heart of the museum is its thirteen largescale multifigure dioramas filled with war memorabilia, including uniforms, weapons, and everyday artifacts. Through the lifelike mannequins and the historical objec…
Contradictory Modernities and Neo-Romanticism Across Central Europe
This introductory chapter provides context to and a framing for this special issue. Building on an interdisciplinary workshop that took place in Poznan, Poland, in early 2023, the articles assembled here examine what we describe as a constitutive ambivalence that has structured Central European experiences of modernity. Bringing together historians, sociologists, art historians and literary scholars, our special issue foregrounds the continuing l…
Symbolism as Paradigm of Contradictory Modernity
Never has a movement been more contested and more conflicted than Symbolism. It is rife with reactionary elements and yet is often seen as the bridge, the necessary threshold, through which art needed to pass in order to arrive at modernism. Its artists, motifs and works were often enwrapped in a profound nostalgia and yet exhibited– indeed invented–some of the very hallmarks of visual modernism. Yet many of the Symbolist groups are tied to Neo-R…
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