Lynn Gamwell
Historian, curator
Education
BA, University of Illinois, Chicago; MFA, Claremont McKenna College; MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Curatorial work includes
"Sacred Geometry and Secular Science," Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago; "Art After Einstein," New York Academy of Sciences; “Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind,” Equitable Gallery, New York and Museum der Stadt, Vienna; "Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness Before 1914," University of Pennsylvania; "The Sigmund Freud Antiquities: Fragments from a Buried Past," Freud Museum, London
Books include
Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual; Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History; Cubist Criticism. Co-author: From Neurology to Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud’s Neurological Drawings and Diagrams of the Mind. Editor: Dreams 1900-2000: Art, Science, and the Unconscious Mind
Awards include
Gradiva Prize, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis; George Steiner's Book of the Year, Times Literary Supplement