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标题：Artifact Biography: A Variable Colour Mixer
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作者：Erich Weidenhammer
期刊名称：Museum and Society
电子版ISSN：1479-8360
出版年度：2019
卷号：17
期号：3
页码：307-312
DOI：10.29311/mas.v17i3.3230
出版社：University of Leicester
摘要：Among the artifacts representing early research in experimental psychology at the University of Toronto is a precisely machined steel instrument of German manufacture. The provenance of this variable colour mixer opens onto a largely-forgotten history of research into colour perception that depended heavily on mechanical instruments of the spinning-wheel type. Like the broader practices and principles of experimental psychology, these instruments were widely disseminated during a period in which the German research-based model of university education was widely admired. For most of its early history at the University of Toronto, the experimental laboratory was run by a German, August Kirschmann (1860-1932), who led investigations into the psychological basis for aesthetic judgement, especially as it concerned colour perception. Kirschmann’s hostility to existing art criticism reflected his belief that experimental psychology could provide a coherent foundation to the language of aesthetics.
关键词：Experimental Psychology; Toronto; Colour Aesthetics; Zimmermann; Kirschmann