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The celebrity monarch : Empress Elisabeth and the modern female portrait / Olivia Gruber Florek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Florek, Olivia Gruber, author.
- Series:
- Performing celebrity.
- Performing celebrity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elisabeth, Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1837-1898.
- Elisabeth.
- Celebrities. .
- Celebrities--Portraits.
- Celebrities.
- Celebrities in art .
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Empress Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and widely collected photographs spread news of her beauty, and the twentieth-century German-language film trilogy Sissi cemented this legacy. Despite the enduring fascination with the empress, art historians have never considered Elisabeth's role in producing her public portraiture. With resources ranging from the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Elisabeth's private collection of celebrity photography to twenty-first century collages and films by T. J. Wilcox, The celebrity monarch positions Elisabeth herself as the primary engineer of her public image and argues for the widespread influence of her construction on both modern art and the emerging phenomenon of celebrity."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- List Of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Staging The State Portrait
- Chapter 2: Styling Authenticity: The Boundless Hair Of The Celebrity Monarch
- Chapter 3: The Imaginary Empress: Photomontage And The Simulation Of Intimacy
- Chapter 4: Elisabeth And The Modernist Imagination Of Anton Romako
- Chapter 5: Sissi in New York And Elisabeth'S Descendants in the United States
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Florek, Olivia Gruber The Celebrity Monarch
- ISBN:
- 9781644532898
- OCLC:
- 1354575902
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