Word: didacticism
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Through content or means of creation, each work in this show integrates this central notion of the fine line between the two traditions of art. The exhibition succeeds in its didactic intentions: It is relevant and easily understandable, but not so obvious as to be shallow. Perhaps its greatest strength...
The theme of instruction persists throughout Ono’s career, but rather than come off as didactic, these works serve to demystify art by initiating viewers into their particular mode of experience. More tangible examples of such interactivity include the “Painting to Let the Evening Light...
Not surprisingly, the house was full, nearly beyond capacity. The eager audience fell quiet as West began to unfold his elusive definition of hip-hop, enthralling the audience with his powerful and moving dialectic and, as the hip-hop heads say, dropping science on the folks present. He is known...
Using the students’ questions as starting points (“Why is everyone trying to kill us?”), Lyman and other senior staff members engage in a didactic discussion on everything from the origins of terrorism to the CIA and draconian war tactics. The President appears...
For better or worse, The West Wing has always been a didactic series, but it took finally the urgency of the recent news events for Aaron Sorkin to write an episode that was literally didactic - that is, teacherly - by setting it in what was for all intents and purposes a...