Kenneth Kemble responds to questions about art criticism. Among other thoughts, Kemble states that the critic is a public servant, an intermediary to the service of art, whose duty is to inform, elucidate, and describe. Criticism serves to educate the public, and in this manner it achieves an importance within the art milieu. Kemble also discusses the education ascribed to a critic.

Kenneth Kemble (Buenos Aires, 1923–1998) was one of the main artists of the Informalist movement in Argentina. Beginning in 1956, he experimented with collages, assemblages, reliefs, and informal and sign painting. Kemble participated in the exhibitions of the Asociación Arte Nuevo [New Art Association], a bastion of abstract trends. In 1959, he was part of the exhibition Movimiento Informal [Informalist Movement] at the Van Riel Gallery. In 1961, Kemble was the driving force behind the exhibition that presented "arte destructivo" [destructive art]. He practiced art criticism, mainly at the Buenos Aires Herald (a newspaper for the English community in the capital, founded in 1876) between 1960 and 1963. Afterwards, he continued his written reflections, with an emphasis on the theory of the creative process. The magazine del Arte published a series of questions about art criticism; the respondents included, among others, Kenneth Kemble, Rómulo Macció, Leopoldo Presas, Vicente Forte, and Raúl Russo. The response of Kemble—regarded then as one of the most important artists of his generation—is interesting both as a crystallization of his ideas on art criticism and as an explanation of the motives that pushed him to take up art criticism at the Buenos Aires Herald(see documents).