%0 Journal Article
%T Culture and Affect in Aesthetic Experience of Pictorial Realism: An Eighteenth-Century Korean Literatus¡¯ Reception of Western Religious Painting in Beijing
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%D 2019
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-25631
%X Cultural factors are operating in the aesthetic experience of pictorial realism, occurring in a transcultural manner, and their effects are salient in beholder¡¯s affective reaction correlated with perceptual-cognitive operation. This paper aims to demonstrate this hypothesis, by developing two analytical tools that might explain the anti-hedonic valence of Hong Taeyong, an eighteenth-century Korean literatus¡¯ aesthetic experience of a Western religious fresco depicting the Lamentation of Christ in a Jesuit Catholic church in Beijing. First, a complex multifold conflict between £¿actual affect£¿ and culturally modeled £¿ideal affect£¿, operating simultaneously in his visual experience, might be translated into a highly negative valence of his global affective state. Second, the variance of processing fluencies at different levels would have made his global processing operation less fluid, and it might play a role in his negative affective valence, since the affect is inherent in processing fluency signal
%U http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/25631