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American art historian (born 1943)

Lynn Gamwell (born 1943) 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.

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

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 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):
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