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 a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and she was director of the art museum at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her curated exhibitions have traveled to the Jewish Museum in New York, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, and the Wien Museum Karlsplatz in Vienna, Austria.

Her books include:

• Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes, (MIT Press, 2025)
• Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual, revised and expanded edition (Princeton University Press, 2020) ^[2]
• Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History (Princeton University Press, 2016) ^[3]
• Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind (author and editor; Cornell University Press, 2000) ^[4]
• Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914 (with Nancy Tomes; Cornell University Press, 1994). ^[5]
• Sigmund Freud and Art: His Personal Collection of Antiquities (author and editor; Harry N. Abrams, 1989) ^[6]

References

1. Birth year from WorldCat Identities, retrieved 2020-02-20
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
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. 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