@article {6559,
	title = {Empire Reading of Manet{\textquoteright}s Execution of Maximilian: Critical Visual Aesthetics and Antenarrative Spectrality},
	journal = {Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry},
	volume = {4},
	year = {2005},
	month = {2005},
	pages = {118-134},
	abstract = {I am researching the five versions of the Manet series on the Execution. Believe it or not, the paintings (and a lithograph I am still searching for) are the subject of heated debate in visualization, historical narrative, and painting research. My contribution is to argue that Manet{\textquoteright}s visual aesthetics is coming into vogue, and a two traditional aesthetics (empire and traditional monarchy) are declining, being revised, and the official aesthetic is resisting with acts of censorship because of Manet{\textquoteright}s critique of empire. There are competing aesthetics theorists, such as Bataille (1955), Larsen (1990), and Wilson-Bareau (1992) who argue different ways of viewing the aesthetics of Manet{\textquoteright}s 4th painted version of {\textquotedblleft}The Execution of Maximilian{\textquotedblright} (see Version 4).},
	issn = {1532-5555}
}
