This article is from the WeChat publicNumber: movable type Culture (ID: mtype-cn), anchor: movable type Jun Xiaotian, guest: Jia Rui (PhD candidate in film science at the Third University of Paris), Original title: “Can a beautiful and rich sister ride the wind and waves?” Conversation with Doctor of Film Studies on “America’s Hegemony” | Movable Radio 010″, head picture from: “Sister on the Wind”
Can only the beautiful and rich sister ride the wind and waves? How is the aesthetic concept of thinness constructed? Where do contemporary women’s body anxiety come from? Why does East Asian aesthetics favor “white skinny” and “girly sense” alone? Behind the logic of “face value is justice”, what kind of symptom of the times is reflected?
This issue of movable type radio waves invites Dr. Rui, a PhD candidate in film science at the Third University of Paris, to talk with movable type Jun Xiaotian and answer the above questions together. If you are also annoyed by whether “makeup pleases men or please yourself” and angry at the statement “after 30 years of age, life may gradually decrease”, welcome to listen to this episode.
How is the aesthetic standard of thinness as beauty constructed?
Moving Character Jun: and this year’s two young girls became popular at the same time as the talent show “Youth Have You 2” and “Creation 2020”, there is also a style of dressing called BM style, This style of wearing is that the upper body is a tight knit shirt, and the lower half is wearing a plaid skirt, and a girl with a particularly slender figure can wear a unique beauty. This kind of dressing comes from the carrying of some young and beautiful girl-style female artists, such as Ouyang Nana, Lisa and Jennie in the Korean girl group Blackpink, and popular student Yu Shuxin in “Youth Have You 2”. These idols showed pictures of themselves wearing BM on Weibo, Xiaohongshu, personal vlog and ins, which triggered a craze for Chinese women.
But the BM style has extremely strict requirements on the thinness of women’s figure. The weight of 1 meter 68 like me can’t exceed 98 pounds, so this style of wear has already backhanded with the previous two years. Touching the navel and A4 waist has become a kind of flaunting capital on social networking sites. These actions of showing their good body shape, or this style of dressing, one of their core aesthetic points is that they must be thin. The demanding requirements for girls’ stature are that girls must be very thin. How is this aesthetic standard constructed?
BM girl height and weight table
Pai Rui: I think we need to define it first or how do we trace the history of beauty and thinness, respectively. From the perspective of art history, beauty and thinness are not related from the beginning, and beauty and thinness have their own very diverse developments in these two directions. Of course, we also need to note that although the development of artistic works in various cultural environments, beauty has been quite diversely displayed, but the authors of these artworks and its main aesthetics are basically male, so we are also very It is easy to experience the presence of male gaze and the female body as an aesthetic object from the process of viewing works of art, as a passive object.
On the sculpture of 25000 BC, it is actually a sculpture of a female body excavated near Austria in the early 20th century. Everyone calls it Venus of Waldorf, but in fact it is a very small Sculpture of a female body. From our perspective today, that figure is really not beautiful. It is a standard pear-shaped figure. It is relatively robust and has very obvious gender characteristics. This is consistent with the development of human history for a long time. The performance of female body beauty is inseparable from the worship of fertility and the emphasis on gender characteristics.
Waldorf’s Venus was founded in 1908 by archaeologist Joseph Somboti(Josef Szombathy) was discovered at a Paleolithic site near (Willendorf) in Waldorf, Austria. The statue is carved from a non-native ocher limestone with a red ocher color.
I can recommend a book, “History of Beauty” by Aike, a famous Italian writer and art historian. In this book, he traces the development of beauty in great detail. We can see that in various historical periods, an orientation of feminine beauty and pragmatism is an important component. How can a woman survive in a harsh natural environment? She must be strong, she can’t be as skinny as she is; and she is not necessarily very thin in our eyes today for the sake of reproduction, that is to say, beauty and thinness are not necessarily the same in the historical process. The righteousness and righteousness must be accompanied by the relationship.
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