Word: didacticism
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But Kiefer's work is, in a sense, much more traditional than Beuys'. He is the modern incarnation of the grand-scale history painter, producing didactic machines rather than the ephemeral and koan-like events (talking to a dead hare, sweeping a pavement) that were Beuys' specialty. Kiefer wants to...
Not all of Kiefer's allegories work with such clarity. When he felt the urge to be didactic ten or so years ago, he could be remarkably opaque. Ways of Worldly Wisdom, 1976-77, attempts to create a whole genealogy of German nationalism starting with Arminius, who in A.D. 9...
The surfeit arises from the sheer size of the show. Its catalog lists 748 items, ranging from a corroded metal pen to a whole stained-glass lancet window from Canterbury Cathedral. It covers manuscripts, paintings, maps, jewelry, seals, coins, heraldry, enamelwork, ceramics, armor, textiles, architecture and a great deal more...
As for Peale, his greater achievement was the invention of the first scientifically organized American museum open to the public on a continuous basis. His Peale's Museum in Philadelphia began modestly, with a few stuffed birds, and gradually expanded to include other "wonders" of science, nature and art, from...
Silent Sins, which will use its reciepts to benefit Harbor Me, a group for battered women, is often as didactic as inventive. Yet outstanding individual performances and a gripping message recommend it as a play worth seeing.