Like Frank Gehry, who has derived inspiration from Robert Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly and other artists, Eisenman has drawn architecture into a wider frame of cultural reference.
But the subtler pallet and wider frame suits the New Orleans series, allotting space and attention for narrative contrasts, particularly confrontations of character.
He's acutely aware of pop and rock history – and mythology – and has a significantly wider frame of musical reference than his detractors would credit him with.
Nelsons' interpretation, however, embraces a wider frame of reference than political anger, although he views the final expression of triumph as one of unambiguous elation.
But for her wider frame of reference -- the reason she left Nashville -- there's the rest of this not-really-country record, indebted to sources as disparate as Dusty Springfield, Phil Spector and Doug Sahm.
If it was about 'male' rappers, they'd just be called rappers – taken as the norm – and compared with a far wider frame of reference not necessarily based on gender".
We saw a wider frame of reference: how, in the digital age, could we deliver a PSB system that was transparent, accountable, pluralist, good value for money, and scalable to changing needs, rather than embedded in self-sustaining institutions?
And the argument that the past half-century has been merely the precursor to today's increasingly globalized economy is, Reynolds writes, "just cold war victor's history conceptualized in a wider frame".
What makes the video for "Formation" effective and affecting is its focus on the individual within a wider frame: in gorgeously constructed shots that don't so much take the funk of death out of the material as distance us from it, we see Beyoncé traversing what amounts to a museum of suffering.
