Olivia Gruber Florek

The Celebrity Monarch

Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait

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Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781644532867
• ISBN-10: 1644532867
• Artikelnr.: 63990086

Autorenporträt

Olivia Gruber Florek is an Associate Professor of Art History at Delaware County Community College in Media, PA. Her work has appeared in Sissi's World: The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth (2018), edited by Maura Hametz and Heidi Schlippacke, and Representing the Habsburg-Lorraine Dynasty in Music, Visual Media, and Architecture, ca. 1618-1918 (2017), edited by Werner Telesko.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations   
Acknowledgements   
 
Introduction   
Chapter One: Staging the State Portrait   
Chapter Two: Styling Authenticity: The Boundless Hair of the Celebrity
Monarch   
Chapter Three: The Imaginary Empress: Photomontage and the Simulation of
Intimacy   
Chapter Four: Elisabeth and the Modernist Imagination of Anton Romako   
Chapter Five: Sissi in New York: T. J. Wilcox and Elisabeth's Descendants
in the United States   
 
Endnotes   
Bibliography    
Index