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
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
   • Dowdall, George W. (July 1996), The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 120 (3): 267–269, JSTOR   20093058
   • Scull, Andrew (September 1996), Contemporary Sociology, 25 (5): 695–697, doi:10.2307/2077606, JSTOR   2077606
   • Jimenez, Mary Ann (September 1996), Isis, 87 (3): 577–578, doi:10.1086/357642, JSTOR   236052
   • McGovern, Constance M. (September 1996), The Journal of American History, 83 (2): 617–618, doi:10.2307/2944992, JSTOR   2944992
   • Dain, Norman (Fall 1997), Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 71 (3): 538–539, doi:10.1353/bhm.1997.0109, JSTOR   44445949, S2CID   70499107
6. Review of Dreams 1900-2000:
   • Bendheim, Fred (January 2000), "The stuff of dreams", The Lancet, 355 (9198): 151–152, doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(00)00004-0, S2CID   54357398
7. Reviews of Mathematics and Art:
   • Arlinghaus, Sandra L., Mathematical Reviews , MR   3445193
   • Werner, Dirk, zbMATH, Zbl   1335.01004
   • Bultheel, Adhemar (November 2015), "Review", EMS Reviews, European Mathematical Society
   • Swetz, Frank (December 2015), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America
   • Freitas, Pedro; Palmeirim, Simão (June 2019), The Mathematical Intelligencer, 41 (4): 66–68, doi:10.1007/s00283-019-09911-w
   • Hahn, Andre Michael (September 2016), The British Journal for the History of Science, 49 (3): 524–525, doi:10.1017/s0007087416001047
   • Brown, Karie (October 2016), The Mathematics Teacher, 110 (3): 239, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.110.3.0238, JSTOR   10.5951/mathteacher.110.3.0238
   • Toller, Owen (October 2016), The Mathematical Gazette, 100 (549): 550–552, doi:10.1017/mag.2016.137
   • Karaali, Gizem (October 2016), Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, 10 (1–4): 87–92, doi:10.1080/17513472.2016.1242186, S2CID   125678437
   • Dyke, Phil (October 2016), Leonardo, 49 (5): 467–468, doi:10.1162/leon_r_01308, S2CID   57561628
8. Reviews of Exploring the Invisible first edition (2002):
   • Shahn, Ezra (December 20, 2002), "Swept into the modern along with science", Science, New Series, 298 (5602): 2333–2334, doi:10.1126/science.1079572, JSTOR   3833162, S2CID   192070436
   • Braun, Marta (March 2004), College Art Association Reviews, doi: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2004.16
   • Coco, Janice M. (December 2004), "Book Review: Psychoanalysis and Culture", Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 52 (4): 1253–1257, doi:10.1177/00030651040520040301, S2CID   145648464
   • Harrison, Alexandra M. (June 2008), Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 56 (2): 674–678, doi:10.1177/0003065108320036, S2CID   144033260