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
[edit]- ↑ Birth year from WorldCat Identities, retrieved 2020-02-20
- ↑ 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
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- ↑ Reviews of Mathematics and Art:
- Arlinghaus, Sandra L., Mathematical Reviews, MR 3445193
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Werner, Dirk, zbMATH, Zbl 1335.01004
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - 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
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Hahn, Andre Michael (September 2016), The British Journal for the History of Science, 49 (3): 524–525, doi:10.1017/s0007087416001047
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Brown, Karie (October 2016), The Mathematics Teacher, 110 (3): 239, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.110.3.0238, JSTOR 10.5951/mathteacher.110.3.0238
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Toller, Owen (October 2016), The Mathematical Gazette, 100 (549): 550–552, doi:10.1017/mag.2016.137
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Karaali, Gizem (October 2016), Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, 10 (1–4): 87–92, doi:10.1080/17513472.2016.1242186, S2CID 125678437
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Dyke, Phil (October 2016), Leonardo, 49 (5): 467–468, doi:10.1162/leon_r_01308, S2CID 57561628
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- Arlinghaus, Sandra L., Mathematical Reviews, MR 3445193
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
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- Zwelling, Shomer S. (Spring 1996), Winterthur Portfolio, 31 (1): 81–84, doi:10.1086/wp.31.1.4618535, JSTOR 4618535
- ↑ Reviews of Sigmund Freud and Art:
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