{"id":659,"date":"2016-11-21T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T03:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/?p=659"},"modified":"2016-11-21T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T03:42:24","slug":"dina-goldstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photo-web.com.au\/gn\/dina-goldstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Dina Goldstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2016\/nov\/17\/dina-goldstein-modern-girl-chinese-pinups-in-pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theartmuseum.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/posters.jpg\" alt=\"posters\" width=\"600\" height=\"304\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From The Guardian \u2014 and wonderful series&nbsp;Modern Girl, by artist Dina Goldstein. She updates 1930s Chinese adverts to lampoon our quest for the perfect lifestyle. A&nbsp;joy to look at \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2016\/nov\/17\/dina-goldstein-modern-girl-chinese-pinups-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here some text from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinagoldstein.com\/home-page\/\" target=\"_blank\">artist\u2019s own site<\/a> \u2014 a&nbsp;background to this series<\/p>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"169.764\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">My latest project, Modern Girl, extrapolates upon past themes of<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"732.449666666667\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">commercialism and identity within Western culture by creating reimagined ad campaigns based upon the famous \u201cpin-up girl\u201d advertising posters of 1930s Shanghai, China.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"732.449666666667\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"732.449666666667\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">This era heralded the emergence of Asian women as individuals, as they began to break away from Confucius tradition that demanded total filial piety alongside crippling beauty practices like foot binding.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"732.449666666667\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">However, while an expression of gender emancipation, the posters sowed the seeds of a&nbsp;new form of exploitation: the use of the female form to sell consumer products.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"732.449666666667\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"732.449666666667\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">I grew up in Vancouver \u2014 regarded as the gateway to the East. It&nbsp;has<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">experienced unprecedented immigration from Hong Kong and China in the past 35 years, turning this once provincial community into a&nbsp;vibrant Asian metropolis.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The impact of Asian culture has been profound, not only on the city but on me as an individual and artist. I&nbsp;have come to love Asian film and literature such as Maxine Hong Kingston\u2019s The Woman Warrior and Gish Jen\u2019s Mona in the Promised Land.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Such works explore the immigrant experience, something that resonates with my own experiences emigrating from Israel in childhood. Learning to fit in was stressful, however, I&nbsp;realized that the challenges facing my young Asian friends in Vancouver were even greater.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">They were torn between familial demands of obedience and academic achievement \u2014 in opposition to the Western ideals of self-expression and individualism.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The \u2018Modern Girl\u2019 image first appeared in the West and was notable for its bold sexuality, with scantily clad women selling everything from clothing, soap and cigarettes to army recruitment. Chinese pin up girls also began to appear in magazines and posters. More conservatively dressed in silk cheongsams and smooth chignons, these models nonetheless radiated sensuality.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"260.3906666666666\"><em><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Modern Girl, in fact, was inspired by Chinese historians Tani Barlow and Madeleine Yue Dong, who theorized that this Asian version was an extension of a&nbsp;global phenomenon launched by multinational corporations and disseminated by mass media, whose effect was to emphasize Western imperial 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