Lynn Gamwell

Lynn Gamwell (born 1943)[1] is an American nonfiction author and art curator known for her books on art history, the history of mathematics, the history of science, and their connections.

Gamwell has a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MFA from Claremont Graduate School, and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts, and has curated exhibits for institutions including the Freud Museum, New York Academy of Sciences, Laguna Beach Museum of Art[2], and Loyola University Museum of Art.[3]

Her books include:

  • Sigmund Freud and Art: His Personal Collection of Antiquities (catalog for exhibit The Sigmund Freud Antiquities: Fragments from a Buried Past, Sigmund Freud Museum, 1989)[4]
  • Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914 (with Nancy Tomes, Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry, Cornell University Press, 1994).[5]
  • Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind (catalog for exhibit, Cornell University Press, 2000)[6]
  • Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History (Princeton University Press, 2016)[7]
  • Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual, revised and expanded edition (Princeton University Press, 2020)[8]

References

  1. ^ Birth year from WorldCat Identities, retrieved 2020-02-20
  2. ^ "West Coast Realism: an exhibition organized by Lynn Gamwell, Laguna Beach Museum of Art". mullenbooks.com. Mullen Books. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  3. ^ Lynn Gamwell, School of Visual Arts, retrieved 2020-02-20
  4. ^ Reviews of Sigmund Freud and Art:
    • Breslin, Ramsay Bell (Spring 1992), "Digging for the truth", The Threepenny Review, 49 (49): 22–23, JSTOR 4384083
    • Scully, Stephen (Fall 1997), Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Third Series, 5 (2): 222–233, JSTOR 20163680{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. ^ Reviews of Madness in America:
    • Zwelling, Shomer S. (Spring 1996), Winterthur Portfolio, 31 (1): 81–84, doi:10.1086/wp.31.1.4618535, JSTOR 4618535{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Dowdall, George W. (July 1996), The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 120 (3): 267–269, JSTOR 20093058{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Scull, Andrew (September 1996), Contemporary Sociology, 25 (5): 695–697, doi:10.2307/2077606, JSTOR 2077606{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Jimenez, Mary Ann (September 1996), Isis, 87 (3): 577–578, doi:10.1086/357642, JSTOR 236052{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • McGovern, Constance M. (September 1996), The Journal of American History, 83 (2): 617–618, doi:10.2307/2944992, JSTOR 2944992{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Dain, Norman (Fall 1997), Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 71 (3): 538–539, doi:10.1353/bhm.1997.0109, JSTOR 44445949, S2CID 70499107{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. ^ Review of Dreams 1900-2000:
  7. ^ Reviews of Mathematics and Art:
  8. ^ Reviews of Exploring the Invisible first edition (2002):
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