SOURCE: A review of 'Work and Leisure', in The Criterion, Vol. XV, No. LIX, January, 1936, pp. 352-53.

In the following essay, Hudson offers Work and Leisure as an antidote to the totalitarian madness taking hold of Europe.

[Work and Leisure] consists of three lectures delivered at University College Bangor, a year ago. The casual reader may be surprised to find that in the titles of the individual lectures 'art' has been substituted for 'work'. This is because Mr. Gill uses the word 'art' in the scholastic sense of making things—any thing—with skill; 'all things made are works of art', and to suppose that 'the word Art itself means something to do with beauty is a very great mistake'. An artist is an artisan, the master of an art. The conventional modern view that art and commerce have nothing to do with each other is therefore wholly...