Word: didacticism
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From that moment, Johns' work, slowly done and irregularly seen, served as a still, enigmatic center to the turmoil it had helped provoke. In Johns, the '50s artist-imagined as "hot," expressive and tragic-was displaced by the didactic painter-hero of the '60s; a man of...
The constructivist impulse to pure didactic form began before World War I.
At best, fairy-tale stuff, but there is such a sweet, pleasant air about the enterprise. Everyone concerned works so earnestly and professionally to bring it off that it manages to transcend its inherent banalities. Those who deserve the largest share of the credit are Director Johnson, a solid pro...
Dick Young, gifted, didactic and the senior baseball writer in Manhattan, forecast the imminent firing of Billy Martin, the Yankee manager. "Billy had the world by the fine hair, and he has loused it up," Young wrote with consistent, if unappealing imagery.
Fassbinder has criticized Godard's post 'Weekend', post-May '68 films for being too didactic and for alienating their audiences. Such is certainly the case, but Godard is not interested in reaching a broad, but a select, audience. He does not want to point out injustices but is interested in...