Word: didacticism
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The best of the lot is "Rosetta" (Alternative Comics; $19.95; 194pp.), which is simply stunning. It combines the meticulousness of such handcrafted, small print-run books as Non with the availability of a trade paperback. Ng Suat Tong has sharply edited the selections for a variety of styles, subjects and...
But it all happens way too fast, with little subtlety or character development. Boudiaf's neutrality has no grounding and seems unlikely. The story gets so busy that the title, for example, remains a mystery. Boudiaf arrives in America for a page and a half and immediately returns to Paris...
Sometimes plodding, sometimes didactic, sometimes deliriously disjointed, often the race films were, quite frankly, terrible. - film historian Donald Bogle in "A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters"
Judevine is a play about the forgotten that succeeds in making you pay attention to them by never demanding that you do so. Eschewing didactic preaching and manipulative trickery, it just tells their stories. A more self-conscious and sermonizing play could not elicit the sort of warm glow that...
Signac was also an energetic and talented writer, an avid reader and bibliophile, and an ardent backer of the avant-garde in the days when that word actually meant something. "The golden age has not passed," ran the subtitle he appended to an enormous didactic canvas, In the Time of...