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the empty rectangle that decides what counts as art and what counts as wall
means a structure or border that surrounds and holds something, or by extension the underlying support, set of boundaries, or interpretive context that shapes how a thing is seen or understood.
from From Old English framian, 'to be helpful, make progress,' rooted in the Germanic sense of moving forward and putting things in order — a cousin of 'from' and 'forth.' The notion drifted from 'to advance or prepare' toward 'to construct, to shape,' and by late Middle English it settled on the built thing itself: the timber skeleton of a house, then the border around a picture. The sinister 'frame someone' — to construct false evidence — is a much later American slang twist, framing a person the way one frames a wall.
- gilded boom
- Baroque frames often cost more than the paintings inside
- the setup
- To frame someone is to build a fake picture of guilt
- film unit
- Movies are just 24 still frames tricking your eyes each second
- reframe
- Therapists change lives by changing the frame, not the facts
- skeleton truth
- A building's frame holds everything; the walls just hide it
gutenberg's printing frame — johannes gutenberg's wooden press frame, ~1440, revolutionized printing in mainz
eiffel tower frame — gustave eiffel's wrought-iron lattice frame, 1889 paris exposition, 7,300 tons
domesday book frame — oak frame binding the 1086 survey of england, still preserved at the national archives