When I refer to criteria [ am obviously not talking about a particular

set of rules. My critics appear to have equated the notion of criieria with
the idea of rules. In fact what they are advocating is a particular set of
rules. These are social, psychological and political and they are a set.
The rigidity of the contemporary doctrine that "everything goes" is as
inflexible as that endorsed by any academy in history, and a good deal
less defensible.

What we need is a concern with discovering extensions to our concept
of form; not forgetting that any useful concept of form implies a system
of ordering and a set of consistencies, but it is 1 new and broader con-
cept that we need, and this in turn must entail new relationships of
color and texture; perhaps wholly new concepts of purpose. In short,
by criteria I intend some things far more universal than our social
problems of the moment or private adventures in self discovery. I am
suggesting that it is not essential that art be amongst the first victims
of egaliterianism and a commitment to the "consensus".

Kay Whatmough

DE POTTENBAKKER

Aart van der Leeuw.
Translation: Henk van Amstel.

The master says give to the bowl the shape of a loaf of bread.

Why use a fine goblet as a simple vessel cupped in the hollow of the
hand will equally quench the thirst

Allow as only ornament for your jar the generous curving of a
smooth belly

Heavy is the burden of life, earnest; the good things of life go always
with the blood and sweat of men.

Take care that formed in a sober shape the simplest bow! receives
those bitter fruits,

But when I sit working at my window, and in the frame of the window
pane fields and sky delight me by their mighty picture, the
daisies sparkling in the meadow, swallows dashing swift ara-

besques from cloud to cloud, the butterflies unfolding the mystic
marvels of their patterns etched diamond against sapphire;