Based on concepts of cognitive mastering and the rewarding effect of making sense of challenging visual art (taken from a psychological model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments of Leder et al., 2004), we hypothesised that viewers who have knowledge about an artist’s disability will appreciate their ambiguous works more than viewers who do not have such knowledge. Additionally, we aimed to explore how information about the artist’s disability changes the viewer’s aesthetic emotions. We investigated the effect of information on the creator’s visual disability on aesthetic experience in relation to three categories of visual art: photos, sculptures, and drawings. We showed digital reproductions of artworks (N = 32) produced by amateur artists with severe visual impairment to nonexperts in art (N = 145). Viewers assessed their aesthetic appreciation (understood as liking and value) and aesthetic emotions on the Self-Assessment Manikin scales for valence, arousal, dominance, origin, and significance. In accordance with our hypothesis, knowledge of the artists' disability had a positive influence on appreciation, but the effect of information was moderated by artwork category and was significant only in the case of sculptures and drawings (works created using these techniques were assessed in the preliminary study as more difficult to interpret than photos). A similar pattern of results was found for the dependent variables of arousal and significance. Therefore, the positive influence of information about the artists' disabilities on aesthetic experience is mainly revealed when the artworks are characterised by low detectability (defined as the difficulty in interpreting an artwork due to difficulty in recognizing what it depicts).

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关于艺术家残疾的知识如何改变审美体验？

基于认知掌握的概念和理解具有挑战性的视觉艺术的奖励效应（取自 Leder 等人的审美欣赏和审美判断的心理模型，2004），我们假设了解艺术家残疾的观众将比没有这种知识的观众更欣赏他们模棱两可的作品。此外，我们旨在探索有关艺术家残疾的信息如何改变观众的审美情绪。我们调查了有关创作者视觉障碍的信息对与三类视觉艺术相关的审美体验的影响：照片、雕塑和绘画。我们向非艺术专家 (N = 145) 展示了由严重视力障碍的业余艺术家制作的艺术品 (N = 32) 的数字复制品。观众在自我评估人体模型量表上评估他们的审美欣赏（理解为喜好和价值）和审美情绪，包括效价、唤醒度、支配性、起源和重要性。根据我们的假设，艺术家残疾的知识对欣赏有积极的影响，但信息的影响受艺术品类别的调节，并且仅在雕塑和素描的情况下才显着（使用这些技术创作的作品在初步研究比照片更难解释）。对于唤醒和显着性的因变量，发现了类似的结果模式。因此，有关艺术家的信息的积极影响