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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • 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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  3. ^ Reviews of Mathematics and Art:
  4. ^ Review of Dreams 1900-2000:
  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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Dowdall, George W. (July 1996), The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 120 (3): 267–269, JSTOR 20093058{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Scull, Andrew (September 1996), Contemporary Sociology, 25 (5): 695–697, doi:10.2307/2077606, JSTOR 2077606{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Jimenez, Mary Ann (September 1996), Isis, 87 (3): 577–578, doi:10.1086/357642, JSTOR 236052{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • McGovern, Constance M. (September 1996), The Journal of American History, 83 (2): 617–618, doi:10.2307/2944992, JSTOR 2944992{{citation}}: CS1 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 70499107{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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