http://www.hiway1.com/storyframe Tue, 06 May 2008 01:14:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.hiway1.com/storyframe/the-frame/ http://www.hiway1.com/storyframe/the-frame/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:04:21 +0000 admin http://www.hiway1.com/storyframe/?p=5 The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because, without this humble appliance, you can’t know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.



You have to put a “box” around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall? If John Cage, for instance says, “I’m putting a contact microphone on my throat, and I’m going to drink carrot juice, and that’s my composition,” then his gurgling qualifies as his composition because he put a frame around it and said so. “Take it or leave it, I now will this to be music.” After that it’s a matter of taste. Without the frame-as-announced, it’s a guy swallowing carrot juice. -Frank Zappa

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