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B. '175. Make some arbitrary doodle on a bit versal of the natural order. Man cannot
of paper. —And now make a copy next to it, let escape from his own achievement. He cannot
yourself be guided by it. — I should like to say : but adopt the conditions of his own life. No
"Sure enough, I was guided here. But as for longer in a merely physical universe. Lan-
what was characteristic in what happened, - guage, myth, art, and religion are parts of
if I say what happened, I no longer find it this universe. They are the varied threads
characteristic." which weave the symbolic net, the tangled
`But now notice this : while I am being guided web of human experience. All human pro-
everything is quite simple, I notice nothing gress in thought and experience refines upon
special; but afterwards, when I ask myself and strengthens this net. No longer can man
what it was that happened, it seems to have confront reality immediately; he cannot see
been something indescribable. Afterwards no as it were, face to face. Physical reality seems
description satisfies me. It's as if I couldn't to recede in proportion as man's symbolic
believe that I merely looked, made such-and- activity advances. Instead of dealing with the
such a face, and drew a line. —But don't I things themselves man is in a sense constantly
remember anything else ? No ; and yet I feel conversing with himself. He has so enveloped
as if there must have been something else; himself in linguistic forms, in artistic images,
in particular when I say "guidance", "in- in mythical symbols, or religious rites that he
fluence", and other such words to myself. cannot see or know anything except by the
"For surely", I tell myself, "I was being interposition of this artificial medium.'
guided."— Only then does the idea of that Arl B71
ethereal, intangible influence arise.'

C. 'The name is not a picture of the thing
named !' Joe Tilson
The proposition only says something in so far Rainbow grill 1965
as it is a picture ! (see 4.03.) Vacuum-formed screen
Bq Cq i.e. screen on card with
vacuum-formed polystyrene
24 x 24 in.
8. 'And how war yore magpies:' Edition 70
Answer: They war loving, they love laughing, Marlboi-ough Prints
they laugh weeping, they weep smelling, they
smell smiling, they smile hating, they hate
thinking, they think feeling, they feel tempt-
ing, they tempt daring, they dare waiting,
they wait taking, they take thanking, they
thank seeing, as born forelorn in love of love
to live and wive by wile and rile by rule of
ruse, reathed and hose hol'd home, yerh
comerh elope year, coach and four, sweet
peck-at-my-Heart picks one man more.'

9. Was this written by A— Suzanne Langer
B — Ernst Cassirer
C— Merleau-Ponty
`Yet there is no remedy against this re-

George Segal, born in New York in 1924, has had one- William Lipke is an American art historian who has Edward Lucie-Smith has just returned from a visit to
man shows at Green Gallery, N.Y., and Ileana Sonna- specialized in twentieth century British art. He is on Cuba. He is at present working on a book on the arts
bend, Paris, and was represented in 'American the staff of the department of art history at Cornell since 1945, to be published by Thames & Hudson in
Sculpture of the Sixties' at Los Angeles. An important University. His biography of David Bomberg was the spring.
showing of his work was included in 'Dine Oldenburg published earlierthis year by Evelyn Adams & Mackay.
Segal: Painting/Sculpture' at the Art Gallery of Paul Waldo Schwartz studied at Harvard and Colum-
Ontario and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Bryan Robertson is director of the Whitechapel Art bia in the U.S. He was a Pulitzer Fellow in critical
George Segal's text was first given as a lecture, and Gallery and art critic for The Spectator. He is at present writing 1963, and has been art critic for the New York
is published here by permission of the Albright-Knox arranging an exhibition for the University of Cali- Times since 1963. He has written Great Paintings
Art Gallery and George Segal. The tape was edited by fornia, Los Angeles, on recent British painting and (with an introduction by Sir John Rothenstein) and
William Lipke. sculpture. The Hand and Eye of the Sculptor, to be published this
winter. He is at present working on a history and
Charles S. Spencer writes for several journals and analysis of Cubism.
reports on art in Britain for the New York Times.