| The Pei-Yang Pictorial News, which was the outstanding delegate of northern pictorials in the1920s and1930s of Tianjin, indicates us the body aesthetic appreciation fad of Tianjin femalethrough a new visual form. The present paper, which based on this case, analyzes problems such asthe awakening of female body aesthetic consciousness, the body aesthetic presentation logic in thepictorial news, the ways that the pictorial news advocate for the female body aesthetic and theestablishment of the body aesthetic standard and so on step by step. More than that, bodyconsumption, closely connected with the body aesthetic, is also a main problem among these in thepictorial news. Now, when we put the case in the history of the transformation of the female bodyaesthetic, link it to the today’s society aesthetic trend, we will find that we have made a lot of biasedpractice in the body aesthetic. In this way, it is an indispensable thing to find out the way of correctaesthetic guidance, when our aesthetic consciousnesses are being lost in the science and technologyof the rapid development of the world. Until the1990s, Richard Shusterman, who proposedSomaesthetics as a discipline, integrated body concepts in Philosophy and Aesthetics into our dailylife commendably. When we are doing body aesthetic activities at the usual time, we can regard theAlexander Technique as reference to cultivate our correct body consciousnesses and awareness, sothat it can serve well for our body in life, in aesthetic activities, in daily consumption activities. |
