Celebrity Monarch
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art history
Austrian art
Austrian royalty
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biography
carte-de-viste photography
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celebrity
celebrity studies
contemporary art
cultural studies
Emperor Francis Joseph I
Empress Elisabeth
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
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German studies
Gustav Klimt
Habsburg
Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I
kings and queens
monarchy
nineteenth-century art
popular culture
portraiture
public perception
public personality
public portraiture
royal portraits
royalty
Sissi
T. J. Wilcox
theatre and performance studies
Vienna 1900
women's studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781644532850
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2022
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 film trilogy Sissi (1955-57) cemented this legacy. Despite the enduring fascination with the empress, art historians have never considered Elisabeth's role in producing her public portraiture or the influence of her creation. The Celebrity Monarch reveals how portraits of Elisabeth transformed monarchs from divinely appointed sovereigns to public personalities whose daily lives were consumed by spectators. 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, this book 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.
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.
