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Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics

Why Theory

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The Frame Is the Only Present Object

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was the site of a high-profile art theft. The paintings were never recovered, but there's a provision in her will for it to remain exactly the same. So these paintings that were stolen that were, you know, cut out of the frame, the frames are still there. They didn't replace it with anything. It's just the frame.

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