SOURCE: A review of 'Art-Nonsense and Other Essays', in The Criterion, Vol. IX, No. XXXVI, April, 1930, pp. 550-53.

In the following essay, a review of Art-Nonsense, Hague takes issue with Gill's approach to his subject matter.

There are probably few artists who do not suffer from the inspiration of the critics, and by this time, no doubt Mr.'Gill has had a bellyfull. His collection of essays and lectures written between the years 1918 and 1929 comes accordingly as the counter-attack to which the defence is driven. Art-Nonsense is certainly a work of defence, and, I believe, moreover, that the defence is two-fold, at once conscious and unconscious; conscious, in as much as Mr. Gill has deliberately chosen a simplification, both in the use of words and in his manner of approach to the problems with which he deals, which makes it possible for him to establish with greater ease...