Aesthetic judgment is closely related to disgust. Responses such as disgust indicate that sensoryperception is instinctively linkedto facial expressions, including physiological responses such asthe gag reflex. Disgust is mostly triggeredby dissonance; As Darwin pointed out, seeing a streakof soup on a man's beard is disgusting, even though neither the soup nor the beard are inthemselves disgusting. Aesthetic judgments may be related to emotions or, like emotions,partially embodied in physical responses. For example, fear inspired by a sublime landscape canbe physically manifested by an increased heart rate or dilated pupils.As can be seen, emotions adapt to "cultural" responses, so that aesthetics is alwayscharacterized by a "territorial response", as first affirmed by Francis Grosein his "Rules forCaricature Drawing: With an Essay on Caricature Painting" (1788). ). , published in W. Hogarth,The Analysis of Beauty, Bagster, London n.d., pp. 1-2. Thus, it can be argued that Francis Grose is the first critical "aesthetic regionalist" whoproclaimed the anti-universality of aesthetics in opposition to the dangerous and ever-renewing
