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	BBC: Dumbing down the arts?

JohnWaterman

8-29-2009 6:46 AM

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8-29-2009 9:38 AM

Steve Savage

Why then has it lowered itself to such an extent that the chronology and character of these men and their lives has been turned into soap opera? "Desperate" indeed if they have to go to such lengths to reach a "popular" audience.

Why, indeed, redact and revise the characters of one of the great art periods in British and world history? Quite possibly the answer may lie in poor TV ratings of the BBC's three-part investigation of the Pre-Raphaelites as painters, and they are now appealing to the prurient interests of the lower-conscioused troglodytes to recoup their loss. Sex sells.

I assume this series will be marketed abroad

If that is the intention, America's...

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