Sentences with phrase «of didacticism»

What we have, and all the better for it, is a selection of works that are worth seeing in their own right and a grouping that enables one to enjoy them without the pressure of didacticism.

Bean's lack of didacticism helps give the audience an «in» to his work.

These biographical facts can imbue his paintings with an unwanted air of didacticism and traditionalism; it's difficult not to see them as examples of the values he espoused as a teacher and the qualities he analyzed in other artists.

When I agreed to write about the show, I was guided by a kind of didacticism that told me I could use a new experience and shouldn't simply accept the opinions of a few negatively inclined friends.

Adding an additional gesture to the actual surfaces of the works themselves had initially felt like too heavy of a move, and I feared it might bring the works into a type of didacticism.

Your work seems to discuss different kinds of didacticism.

In «The Heavy Hand of Didacticism,» Jon Gingerich says didactic writing «appear [s] as an educational guide instead of a means of enlightenment.»

This can also be understood as the avoidance of didacticism, defined on Dictionary.com as «teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.»

Those themes and the looming responsibility of high school preparation give off a faint air of didacticism, but fortunately it does not overpower the seemingly chief objective to capture the thrills and feelings of an exciting young age.

«Rumble,» enthuses Martin Scorsese, referring to the Link Wray classic, «Well, it's the sound of that guitar, and the aggression there...» Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World pays wonderful homage to the artists therein, and while making their remarkable music all the more powerful and resonate, it offers a wise history lesson void of didacticism, and will also send you in search of records to add to your collection.

The hectoring Funny Games sought to rebuke viewers who willingly consumed its story of smug sadism, and Code Unknown's assertion that the audience is unable to fully grasp Haneke's meaning could be read as another example of his didacticism, but the latter film is more earnest and rigorous.

This absence of didacticism paired with clever, delicious recipes — think courgette noodles, Swedish saffron buns made with almond butter — is key to the appeal of The Green Kitchen, extracted here.

But because Shakespeare rarely uses an actor whose sole role is to play the chorus, he avoids the danger of didacticism, and lets the wisdom embed itself in the action of the play (which is why so many of Shakespeare's characters, including even Iago, both seem and do not seem to express the playwright's viewpoint).

Not exact matches

Explicit didacticism, the tendency to spell out a story's moral lesson, seems at first thought to represent a countertrend to the prevalence of antiheroism.

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

The focused image of an exemplary man not walking with the wicked or standing among sinners or sitting with mockers — «Happy is the man who...» — is turned into the bland self - help didacticism of a second - person pronoun in order to avoid the dread masculine reference: «If you would be happy: / never walk with the wicked...» (1:1).

Here was Alyssa Rosenberg at the Washington Post claiming that the whole point of Wonder Woman is that she's a role model for prepubescent girls, a kind of «Fearless Girl» avant la statue: «[T] he movie... argues that it's... little girls all over the world who stand to gain if they can grow up free of the distorting influence of misogyny,» Rosenberg wrote, with a schoolmarm's didacticism.

Shen Kua was perhaps the greatest of early Chinese scientists, but his writings have none of the conceptual integration of Aristotle or his Muslim and Christian successors: «Notices of the highest originality stand cheek - by - jowl with trivial didacticism, court anecdotes, and ephemeral curiosities.»

We all know that sheer didacticism is nowadays regarded with suspicion in secular educational circles; and there is no need to introduce it into our schools of religion.

More egregious is the completely on - the - nose symbolism, offering a didacticism that clashes with the surprising complexity of Cage's central performance.

How often are issues like class, race, and (sometimes inadvertently) institutional oppression — all of them fundamental to the largely undiscussed operational mechanics of this country — engaged with deeply without being bogged down by finger - wagging didacticism?

With his poetic vision and grasp of the milieu, Sissako has made the essential film about terrorism without a hint of hysterics or didacticism.

Didacticism occasionally dictates too heavily, but, at its best, potent political drama emerges from the superlative meeting of farce and thriller.

The didacticism may still be in full force for Code Unknown, but Haneke has reworked much of it into a form that never turns off the audience, only interesting them with the scenarios he has brought to the screen.

The tone of the movie is so uneven - it lurches from cynicism to didacticism - that it never becomes the classic Egoyan clearly wants it to be.

First he's gimped - up to satisfy the didacticism of the time (with the trucking industry presenting limited opportunity for a moral, the movie settles on putting the fear of God in us over falling asleep at the wheel), then his role is reduced to reaction shots: When Paul finally takes the stand in the courtroom climax, all Bogart manages to squeeze out is «Wull yeah, but...» This is Raft's show, despite the film's studio - sanctioned absorption into the Bogey canon, though Bogart would have his revenge by stealing the lead in High Sierra — and in theory, every one of his Midas - touched career opportunities subsequent to High Sierra — out from under him.

Now that its racial didacticism has lost much of its shock value, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner has become most notable for being a metatextual commentary on the onscreen / offscreen romance of Tracy and Hepburn.

The interconnected threads of this book explore wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony, without ever veering toward didacticism.

His work unmoors itself from the didacticism of American abstraction and self - reflexively seeks to picture the future while conjuring moments in the history of painting.

In the best works, James tests the limits of perception and its tenuous connection to language without devolving into affectation or didacticism, which is rather remarkable in this jargon - riddled age.

In response, museums mobilize an army of educators, organize participatory programming, and deploy endless wall texts in their efforts to engage a wider public, as if didacticism alone could improve class relations.

After growing up in an academic family, a world of rampant auto didacticism was tremendously freeing.

Before seeing the group installed together, as it is in MASTRY, one might have thought it impossible for contemporary painting to simultaneously occupy a position of beauty, difficulty, didacticism, and formalism with -LSB-...]

Similarly, while each artist in the exhibition has a unique practice and while these works are incredibly diverse both formally and conceptually, it is compelling that each artist broadly addresses how a categorization of material can paradoxically generate more information rather than a simplification through didacticism.

Lowman's seemingly offhand and casual appearance abets an embedded content that moves in and out of focus, remaining elusive against didacticism.

For his first New York show with Hauser & Wirth, Mark Bradford is presenting a slew of new canvases and video works that reflect his ongoing engagement with what he calls «social abstraction» — abstract art that points towards social and political realities without descending into didacticism.

Housed within sophisticated sculptural installations, his spoken word performances oscillate between extreme didacticism and poetry, ultimately serving to undermine our belief in language as a form of communication in the age of over-sharing.

For all their sombreness, Salcedo's works inhabit a realm of possibility: not only in the hope that historical memory might be reconfigured, but also in how they eschew didacticism and remain open to interpretation.

Unlike the more trenchantly political films of the late Harun Farocki, this piece, while avoiding didacticism, also risks inconsequence.

It was a subtle though distinctly cheeky gesture, characteristic of her rigorously playful sensibility: conflating the hallowed sophistication of Minimalist painting with the poolside hotel consumerism of the art fair, while somehow avoiding the didacticism of parody and preserving a degree of elegance.

Ririkrit's work while socially provocative, avoids the mind numbing didacticism in which many of his fellow artists engage.

But of course it hasn't really, for it is too busy hammering its point home with all the didacticism of a fifth - form project.

Lacking the didacticism of her nineteenth century predecessor, Crow instead employs the haunting and dramatic qualities of monochromatic under - painting to ambiguously allude to the energy, as in Lindbergh for President (2011), and, conversely, emptiness, as in Dust Storm, Perrytown, Texas (2011), which define such shifts.

While the subject matter of their work gives it an inherently political element, the artists shy away from didacticism, veering instead toward bold sexuality and intimacy.

Predictably winking but at times also unexpectedly personal and even wistful, Tom Sachs's recent solo show was figured as a kind of material autobiography: a trip down an artistic memory lane paved with a thousand different things, each subsumed within the systematizing logic of his famously relentless, tongue - in - cheek didacticism.

The dogma of clarity, as we shall see, is based on a false theory of knowledge; its scorn of ornament, on a misleading taxonomy of style; the frequent exhortations to sincerity, on a naïve theory of the self; and the unctuous moralizing, on a Boy Scout didacticism