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To be fair, how would you make Victorian morris and the pre raphaelites extra spicy?

Yes!

Because it is not 'cool'. The connotations of the word 'serious' are now limited to boring, Everything boring is bad and undesirable. Hence. We reject not just quality television like this, as you mention, but we also reject people who do not fit into that profile. Also, THIS is cool. And the constant desperation to be cool is uncool.

instaBlaster...

Because television is made by idiots.

Well... as someone who goes on and on about this sort of thing, as friends and family roll their eyes, I'd say you have to have an elephant's hide to simply keep objecting and speaking up. I do! I keep speaking up (about THIS and many other abominations (too strong a word?) of our new technically advanced but socially aberrant world). I love your comment. I wish I ran into more comments like yours. It makes me feel less lonely. I worry that no one cares about the visual and tactile Arts (any part of them) at all. I watch (am obsessed by) all the shows about houses (people buying houses, building them, selling them, expanding them, DESIGNING them, moving from one to another, etc.). And what I notice is... very very few people have paintings on their walls. When did we fall out of love with Art? And now, people use their hands less and less... and don't know how to repair things. I very much appreciate your comment.

It is stated in the documentary that Effie later married Millais.

AleadaA, Effie didn't just claim that Ruskin never had sexual intercourse with her. She was examined by two physicians, and they found that she was right. She was still a virgin after having been married to Ruskin for 6 years! But it has never been cleared up why the marriage was never consummated. The marriage was annulled because of Ruskin's alleged incurable impotence. But it's not at all certain if Ruskin was really impotent or if he just didn't want to have a sexual relationship with Effie.

"fuck! I thought I killed 20 minuted of William Morris" -Mark Corrigan

paulnugent, yes, I felt the same! The claim that his disastrous marriage to Effie Gray was just a minor blip in Ruskin's productive life, is rather silly. And if Ruskin had really married Rose La Touche, that marriage might've failed as well. These episodes are important for understanding Ruskin. That said, he was a great and very unique thinker!

Which God? Mammon?

@@debralegorreta1375 I bet my money on Brahma, first one to take credit for creating the Earth ;-)

Those damn pre-Raphaelites lol

I find it amusing how these people are portrayed, in those times most of the artists were incredibly privileged, historians elevate them as they are some semi-gods. They were rich! How many potentially amazing artists died and they never had a fricking chance to prove their potential, because they were poor people without education?!..and those pesky maids (7:00) bothering him about sunset...

In the end Morris actually admitted this himself- he knew that his pieces were too expensive for average wage people which was his target audience in the first place.

Morris was not against machine. But a craftsman has individuality , creativity , has satisfaction & pride in their work & the finished product reflects this. Quantity over quality. It's a personal choice at the end of the day.

I would argue that Soetsu Yanagi interprets Morris' ideas to the point where the machine is not only useful, but helpful, in making the work of craftspeople easier and more widely available. I don't think the question is the machine, but the use of the machine itself, and the docu kind of pushes this idea by comparing craftsmen using "primitive" (or rather, 19th/early 20th century) machines versus factory workers pressing buttons. Morris I think is worried about the machine supplanting the work of the hands, and it's not necessarily that he's a luddite, but that he believes at a certain point the machine becomes to author of the article and it no longer has any human relationship between craftsman and user. It's a little romanticized, but knowing the man it's hard to fault him for these sorts of conclusions.

The film is an artefact of its time. Like everything else.

Women in the arts and crafts movement is discussed briefly beginning @1:16:30 in the video.

@Neighborhood Nationalist fellas like you are why burdizzos sell

You find drawings of Ruskin in his masterpiece "Modern Painters"

@Vir Nobilis No, women were not all housewives during the time of Ruskin.