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, and Loyola University Museum of Art.[2]

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)[3]
  • 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).[4]
  • Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind (catalog for exhibit, Cornell University Press, 2000)[5]
  • Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History (Princeton University Press, 2016)[6]
  • Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual, revised and expanded edition (Princeton University Press, 2020)[7]

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from WorldCat Identities, retrieved 2020-02-20
  2. ^ Lynn Gamwell, School of Visual Arts, retrieved 2020-02-20
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ Reviews of Madness in America:
  5. ^ Review of Dreams 1900-2000:
  6. ^ Reviews of Mathematics and Art:
  7. ^ Reviews of Exploring the Invisible first edition (2002):