Happy birthday to Mel Bochner, an artist known for his career-long fascination with the cerebral and
Happy birthday to Mel Bochner, an artist known for his career-long fascination with the cerebral and visual associations of words. The title of his painting on view now refers to Leo Rosten’s classic 1968 book The Joys of Yiddish. That many of these Yiddish words have entered the mainstream American vocabulary says a lot about the assimilation of Jews. How many words can you recognize in this painting? -- source link
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