Lynn Gamwell (born 1943) is an American nonfiction author and art curator known for her books on
art history
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
, the
history of mathematics
The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments ...
, the
history of science, and their connections.
Gamwell has a bachelor's degree from the
University of Illinois at Chicago
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, an MFA from
Claremont Graduate School
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, and a PhD from the
University of California, Los Angeles
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. She is also a faculty member at the
School of Visual Arts
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History
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, and has curated exhibits for institutions including the
Freud Museum
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,
New York Academy of Sciences
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, and
Loyola University Museum of Art.
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)
*''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).
*''Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind'' (catalog for exhibit, Cornell University Press, 2000)
*''Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History'' (Princeton University Press, 2016)
*''Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual'', revised and expanded edition (Princeton University Press, 2020)
References
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1943 births
Living people
American art historians
American women art historians
University of Illinois Chicago alumni
Claremont McKenna College alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
School of Visual Arts faculty
Historians from California