关键词: 审美欣赏, 跨文化, 比较美学, 艾略特·多伊奇

Abstract: According to Eliot Deutsch's studies in Comparative Aesthetics, the four dimensions of cross-cultural aesthetic appreciation are Cultural-Authorial Weltanschauung, Cultural-Authorial Aesthetic Preference, Formal Content and Symbolic Values. We will encounter many difficulties when appreciating the works of art from other cultures because of cultural differences. However, the four dimensions can help us overcome these obstacles, thus making possible our better understanding of the aesthetic features of the works of art. Comparative aesthetics is not to weigh the supremacy of the Chinese art or the Western art, nor to take the work of art as proof to cultural differences, but to find some methods with which we can shift from the physical object to the aesthetic object in the process of appreciation. In cross-cultural aesthetic appreciation, the appreciator is not required to identity entirely with the values of other cultures, but expected to understand the four dimensions in the least. It is quite common that in cross-cultural aesthetic appreciation we understand cultural values different from ours but do not identity with them.

Key words: aesthetic appreciation, cross-cultural studies, comparative aesthetics, Eliot Deutsch