# Nancy Marmer

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'''Nancy Marmer''' is a writer, art critic and editor who lives in New York City.<ref>Nancy Marmer's entry in ''Marquis Who's Who in America'', 1997 to the present.</ref>

From 1979 through 1998, Marmer was an editor at [Art in America](/source/Art_in_America) magazine—first as a senior and executive editor (1979–1982), then as managing editor and book review editor (1983–1997) and contributing editor (1998–2008).<ref>Masthead of [Art in America](/source/Art_in_America) from May/June 1979 to May 2008.</ref> She was West Coast editor of [Artforum](/source/Artforum),<ref>Masthead of [Artforum](/source/Artforum), 1976-77.</ref> Los Angeles Correspondent for [Art International](/source/Art_International),<ref>Masthead of [Art International](/source/Art_International), 1965-67.</ref> a founding editor of ''Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction'' and a managing editor of ''Faulkner Studies''.<ref>"News and Notes," ''Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction'', Vol. 1, Issue 1, 1956, p.2; "An Afterword: Celebrating Twenty Volumes," ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'', Vol. 21, Issue 1, 1979, pp. 102-104.</ref> She has taught at the Mellon Seminar, [Rhode Island School of Design](/source/Rhode_Island_School_of_Design), the Visual Arts Department of the [University of California, San Diego](/source/University_of_California%2C_San_Diego), and the English Department of the [University of Minnesota](/source/University_of_Minnesota).

Called one of "the earliest critics who attempted serious explorations of modern art in California"<ref>"Introduction," ''Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art 1945-1980'', ed. Rebecca Peabody, Andrew Perchuk, Glenn Phillips, Rani Singh, The Getty Research Institute, 2011, p. 1 and ''passim''.</ref> and a critic of Los Angeles avant-garde art,<ref>[Mike Davis](/source/Mike_Davis_(scholar)), ''[City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles](/source/City_of_Quartz%3A_Excavating_the_Future_in_Los_Angeles)'', 1990 , Verso (new edition), 2006, p. 65.</ref> Marmer has written about numerous California artists, among them [Ed Ruscha](/source/Ed_Ruscha),<ref>Marmer's review, "Edward Ruscha at Ferus," [Artforum](/source/Artforum), December 1964, is listed as Ruscha's "first significant national exposure" in the artist's online chronology, http://www.edruscha.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007111113/https://edruscha.com/ |date=2024-10-07 }}.</ref> [Richard Diebenkorn](/source/Richard_Diebenkorn),<ref>"Richard Diebenkorn: Pacific Extensions," [Art in America](/source/Art_in_America), January/February 1978, pp. 95-99.</ref> [James Turrell](/source/James_Turrell),<ref>"James Turrell: The Art of Deception," [Art in America](/source/Art_in_America), May 1981, pp.90-99.</ref> [Ron Davis](/source/Ronald_Davis),<ref>"Ron Davis: Beyond Flatness," [Artforum](/source/Artforum), November 1976, pp. 34-37.</ref> [Ed Moses](/source/Ed_Moses_(artist)),<ref>"Ed Moses' Absolutist Abstractions," [Art in America](/source/Art_in_America), November/December 1976, pp. 94-95.</ref> and Alexis Smith.<ref>"Alexis Smith" The Narrative Act," [Artforum](/source/Artforum), December 1976, pp. 31-33.</ref> She is author of "Pop Art in California," a survey of the movement on the West Coast.<ref>Chapter 3 of ''Pop Art'', ed. Lucy R. Lippard, Frederick Praeger, New York, 1966, pp. 139-161. (Other editions: Uitgeverij W. Gaade, Den Haag, 1966; Thames and Hudson, London, 1966; Gabriele Mazzotta Editore, Milano, 1967; Fernand Hazan Editeur, Paris, 1969; Droemer Knauer, 1969, etc. Reissued by Oxford University Press, 1977).</ref> She has also written about the relationship between art and California politics, including "a detailed outline of the effects of [Proposition 13](/source/1978_California_Proposition_13) on the arts."<ref>Paul Schimmel, ''Under the Big Black Sun: California Pluralism and the Birth of the Postmodern Movement'', MOCA, Oct. 1, 2011-Feb. 13, 2012.</ref> Her art criticism and book reviews have been published in [Art in America](/source/Art_in_America), [Artforum](/source/Artforum), [Art International](/source/Art_International), [Art News](/source/Art_News), [New West](/source/New_West), the [Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times), and ''Art Press'' (France).

Marmer has often written about French artists such as [Christian Boltanski](/source/Christian_Boltanski),<ref>"Christian Boltanski: The Uses of Contradiction," [Art in America](/source/Art_in_America), October 1989, pp. 168-181, 233-235. Described as "one of the best critical accounts of the context and development of Boltanski's work in ''Postmodernism and the Re-reading of Modernity'', Manchester University Press, 1992, p. 114.</ref> and about the role of politics in French culture. In 1977, she covered the opening of France's Beaubourg Museum in the [Centre Georges Pompidou](/source/Centre_Georges_Pompidou),<ref>"Waiting for ''Gloire'': Beaubourg Opens in Paris," [Artforum](/source/Artforum), February 1977, pp. 52-59.</ref> and has written articles about the role of the French ministry of culture and the French art world.<ref>"The New Culture: France '82," [Art in America](/source/Art_in_America), December 1982, pp. 115-123, 181-189; Referred to in Andreas Kupfer Schneider, ''Creating the Musee d'Orsay: The Politics of Culture in France'', Pennsylvania University Press, 1998, p. 14.</ref>

Marmer is co-editor of an anthology of literary criticism, ''The Modern Critical Spectrum''.<ref>Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962.</ref>

Marmer was married to the novelist [Gerald Jay Goldberg](/source/Gerald_Jay_Goldberg), a professor emeritus at the [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles). She has one son, Rob Goldberg, a former film critic for the [Wall Street Journal](/source/Wall_Street_Journal), who is a producer and writer of documentary films.

She has received a [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts) Fellowship in Art Criticism, a Samuel Kress Foundation Award in Art History, the [University of Minnesota](/source/University_of_Minnesota) English Department Prize, and is a member of the Sigma chapter of [Phi Beta Kappa](/source/Phi_Beta_Kappa).

Marmer currently writes fiction. She has completed one novel and is at work on a second. Since 2008, she has had a blog at Exegette.blogspot.com<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.exegette.blogspot.com./ |title=Home |website=exegette.blogspot.com.}}</ref>

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