Word: didacticism
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For that, one can gladly put up with the obscurities of his political work. It is Kitaj's drawing that convinces one of the integrity of his search. Perhaps it is not given to any single painter to do what he is trying to do-to construct a narrative...
THE A.R.T.'S FIGARO is funny enough, in fact, that you have to think hard afterwards to figure out why it's also unsettling. Epstein has managed to underscore the class tensions in the play without turning it into a Marxist dialectic, and wherever Beaumarchais' introduces a didactic speech. Epstein...
The author's love and admiration for Fiedler, which should have been the book's main strength, become a liability as Dickson eschews probing Fiedler's complex personality, and instead mingles anecdotes of the maestro's famed gruffness, inflexibility and stinginess with attempts to attribute to him every good quality...
MOZART'S MAGIC FLUTE, that innocently expansive, made-up fairy tale cut with slices of Masonic mysticism, is probably the most durable of all great operas: you could mount it in a barn or a basilica with equal success. It's such a hodge-podge of childish humor, didactic verses...
Realism, from its outset, was a didactic art, created in the still extant belief that painting was one of the prime channels of social discourse.