Amy Goldin published art criticism from 1964 until 1978. Her writing appeared regularly in Arts, Artnews, Artforum, Art Journal, New American Review, International Journal for Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and most frequently in Art in America where she was a contributing editor. In thirteen years, she published nearly 200 pieces, ranging from single paragraph reviews of […]
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Amy Goldin and the Deep Image Group of Poets
As Amy Goldin began writing criticism in 1965, her friendships in particular with the Deep Image group of poets, particularly Robert Kelly, Jerome Rothenberg, David Antin and George Economou, provided a sophisticated playing field and a ready audience for her early criticism. Many facets of her existing interests aligned: her fascination with historical and contemporary […]
Amy Goldin awarded National Endowment Critic’s Grant and travels to Islamic world
In 1972, Goldin received a National Endowment Critic’s Grant. She commuted to Harvard to take courses from noted Islamicist, Oleg Grabar. Here she found an intellectual basis and a world of information on an art form for which the term decoration is in no way a pejorative. In the spring of 1974, Professor Grabar helped […]