ART CRITICS
Sir,-Apropos of nothing in particular, I submit to the judgment of your readers the following, by Alberta Vickridge. in Poetry and the Plav.
CLYDE
CARR
(Wellington),
TO A YOUNG ART CRITIC (who objected to the work of a_ celebrated painter). s he’s demodé with his cult of beauty, And nothing’s smart that needs no explanations? Then let’s forget him, and exalt the sooty Obscurities of new-fledged generations! Youth is fame’s arbiter, and always will be Youth, the iconoclast, the natural rebel, And where there’s idol-breaking, there shall still be The most ‘admired who soonest throw the pebble, Yet, modern critic, you shall taste hig sorrow, For nothing lasts, no cult nor quest nor passion; The _- who judge to-day are judged toAnd "Youth, not you, shall set to-.morrow’s fashion; And you shall see the young men throw the stone. And smash the cherished gods that were your own,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 328, 5 October 1945, Page 24
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149ART CRITICS New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 328, 5 October 1945, Page 24
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