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Warning: Genius at Work - The Art of Aida Makoto

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Is Makoto Aida a misogynist? It seems a fair question. Among his cheerfully scattershot collection at the Mori Art Museum is a series of manga-style paintings called ‘Dog,’ showing naked young women with severed and bandaged limbs being led around on a leash. A 62-minute video depicts the artist tediously masturbating in front of the kanji characters “beautiful young girl.” In “Blender,” he uses more naked girls to make a bloody milkshake. What was the thinking there?

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 54 , December 2012 , e135
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Between 2012 and 2014 we posted a number of articles on contemporary affairs without giving them volume and issue numbers or dates. Often the date can be determined from internal evidence in the article, but sometimes not. We have decided retrospectively to list all of them as Volume 10, Issue 54 with a date of 2012 with the understanding that all were published between 2012 and 2014.' As footnote