Study of Organizing a System for the Establishment of Tea-Aesthetics: Focusing on the 18th Century Tea Culture Space of the Joseon Dynasty

Abstract

An analysis system was established through perceptual characteristics in aesthetic experiences related to Korean tea culture around the 18th century when aesthetics were established as a study and tea-aesthetics were established as a detailed branch of Korean aesthetics. A literature review and case analysis of the tea culture space were conducted based on Gernot Böhme's ‘Atmosphere Aesthetics’. As a result of this study, an aesthetic proposition called the “space” of physical detection that combines the natural environment, external aesthetic elements, and perceptual characteristics of the aesthetic category was presented. Second is the “human” existential values that synthesize the aesthetic background of humanistic ideas, philosophical and aesthetic elements, and perceptual characteristics of aesthetic categories. Third is “vigor”, which is the utterance of intention that combines the aesthetic background of social culture, relational aesthetic elements, and perceptual characteristics of aesthetic categories. Through this analysis system of the tea-aesthetics, it is expected that tea-aesthetics can be established as a study for self-understanding and empathy education by freely interpreting the perceptual experiences of individual perceptual subjects.