PunkClown opened this issue on Feb 13, 2002 ยท 6 posts
PunkClown posted Fri, 15 February 2002 at 9:55 PM
Thanks people, and I apoligise in advance if I mistype, misspell or otherewise have (more than usual) weird posts in the forum...like typing in *"ONO %!%# i'VE turned into an EleCtrOnicAAArdvark!" or something freaky like that; you see I've started on night shift, and it tends to twist my tiny brain a bit after a while! (LOL)
Doruk, being a Zappa fan, I have that book! I feel I should quote Frank on framing, as he says some salient and funny things here on 'framing' and art in general:
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 just a guy swallowing carrot juice.
from The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso. (1989 Pan Books Ltd. London. p. 140.)