The Celebrity Monarch Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), 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 fil...

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Main Author Florek, Olivia Gruber
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New Brunswick University of Delaware Press 2022
Edition1
SeriesPerforming celebrity
Subjects
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Celebrities
Celebrities in art
Females
History
Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Popular Culture
Portrait photography
Portraits
Romanticism
Royalty
Subjects & Themes
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ISBN9781644532867
1644532875
9781644532874
9781644532898
1644532891
9781644532850
1644532859
1644532867
DOI10.36019/9781644532898

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Half-Title Page 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: T. J. Wilcox and Elisabeth's Descendants in the United States Endnotes Bibliography Index
  • 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