Chapter 1: Who were the key figures in the Arts and Crafts movement?
Obsessed.
Nice hats. Good hats. Pointy hats.
Nice hose.
Good old pointy shoes as well.
Sure. But it's a romantic medieval. I'm a medievalist by training. Oh my God, the pressure is on now. The medieval world was violent and dark and scary. And of course, there was art and beauty and philosophy. But this is not a time necessarily of great joy and pleasantness. But the arts and crafts movement, they see it as a romantic age.
Yes, they really romanticize it and idealize it. And they're interested in the medieval world because they perceive it as having a better run society and a better run system for making goods. So they are kind of idealizing and dreaming about this system where objects were produced in small scale workshops rather than these large, anonymous, brutal factories.
And they're looking for artisan sourdough bread. They literally are. They are the cottagecore folks of the late Victorian era. They would be happy in East London now. They are so obsessed with this medieval world, but they aren't alone in that.
There are loads of people in the 19th century, especially artists who are involved in various art movements, who are really looking to the medieval period as this perfect moment in society. They're not right. but they are looking at it through rose-colored glasses. And they're like, wow, those guys, they had it so correct.
But it wasn't surprising that they were interested in that because that was the artistic world. They were kind of becoming adults in all of these arts and crafts people. There was the Gothic revival in the 19th century, especially in architecture. And it meant that kind of wherever you looked, there were Gothic-style buildings.
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Chapter 2: What was the ethos behind the Arts and Crafts movement?
Yes, very good. Yeah, well done. Thomas Cobden Sanderson. Very good. Well remembered. That was a hard one. Well done. Question two. What economic development was the Arts and Crafts Movement reacting against?
Industrialisation.
Yeah. Question three. Can you name two other arts and crafts practitioners besides William Morris?
Edward Byrne-Jones, May Morris.
Yeah, sure. That's fine, yeah. Dante Rossetti, yeah. Philip Webb, Jane Byrne, yeah. There's lots of people. Question four. What went wrong with the Arthurian mural that Morris and his circle produced for the Oxford Union Debating Chamber?
They didn't put a primer on that baby. They didn't paint it first.
It was just bare brick and then some lovely Othi Rihanna. Question five. What was the name of the house designed for William and Jane Morris to live in by the architect Philip Webb?
That was Red, that one? Yeah, Red House.
Question six. Where did Morris and co hire a number of their employees from? Which school?
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