{"product_id":"the-celebrity-monarch-empress-elisabeth-and-the-modern-female-portrait-9781644532867","title":"The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmpress 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 \u003ci\u003eSissi\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003ci\u003eThe Celebrity Monarch\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations   \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Introduction   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Staging the State Portrait   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Styling Authenticity: The Boundless Hair of the Celebrity Monarch   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: The Imaginary Empress: Photomontage and the Simulation of Intimacy   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: Elisabeth and the Modernist Imagination of Anton Romako   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: Sissi in New York: T. J. Wilcox and Elisabeth’s Descendants in the United States   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Endnotes   \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49411062464855,"sku":"9781644532867","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-celebrity-monarch-empress-elisabeth-and-the-modern-female-portrait-9781644532867","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}