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, and Loyola University Museum of Art.^[2]

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)^[3]
• 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).^[4]
• Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind (catalog for exhibit, Cornell University Press, 2000)^[5]
• Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History (Princeton University Press, 2016)^[6]
• Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual, revised and expanded edition (Princeton University Press, 2020)^[7]

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