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 such as mathematics and art.

Gamwell has a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MFA from Claremont McKenna College, and a Ph.D. 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:

  • 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, 1995).[3]
  • Sigmund Freud and Art: His Personal Collection of Antiquities (catalog for exhibit The Sigmund Freud Antiquities: Fragments from a Buried Past, Boston University Art Gallery, 1992)[4]
  • Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind (catalog for exhibit, Cornell University Press, 2000)[5]
  • Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual (Princeton University Press, 2002)[6]
  • Color and Form: The Geometric Sculptures of Morton C. Bradley Jr (catalog for exhibit, Indiana University Art Museum, 2012)
  • Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History (Princeton University Press, 2015)[7]
  • Whirligigs: The Art of Peter Gelker (with Simon J. Bronner, catalog for exhibit, Loyola University Museum of Art, 2015)

References
  1. Birth year from WorldCat Identities, retrieved 2020-02-20
  2. Lynn Gamwell, School of Visual Arts, retrieved 2020-02-20
  3. Reviews of Madness in America:
    • Zwelling, Shomer S. (Spring 1996), Winterthur Portfolio, 31 (1): 81–84, doi:10.1086/wp.31.1.4618535, JSTOR 4618535CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Dowdall, George W. (July 1996), The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 120 (3): 267–269, JSTOR 20093058CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Scull, Andrew (September 1996), Contemporary Sociology, 25 (5): 695–697, doi:10.2307/2077606, JSTOR 2077606CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Jimenez, Mary Ann (September 1996), Isis, 87 (3): 577–578, doi:10.1086/357642, JSTOR 236052CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • McGovern, Constance M. (September 1996), The Journal of American History, 83 (2): 617–618, doi:10.2307/2944992, JSTOR 2944992CS1 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 70499107CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  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 20163680CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. Review of Dreams 1900-2000:
  6. Reviews of Exploring the Invisible:
  7. Reviews of Mathematics and Art:
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