Manet's paintings of the execution of emperor Maximilian of Mexico, a subject to which he returned repeatedly between 1867 and 1869, have striking contemporary parallels. This is political art at its most powerful and timeless, argues John Elderfield.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
