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Daggers thrown at Stars
Comi Comi, 7:Daggers thrown at Stars Fear drives a cold sweat. “Smallpox vaccination” (1934) & “Women Observing Stars” (1936) are paintings by Ōta Chōu. Seen alongside Toshio Matsumoto, his documentary The Weavers of Nishijin (1961) the Whole Earth Catalog and Apollo 11, they suggest a modern conundrum; who are these…