Modern Art: a cautionary tale

There is an abstract artist living up the road who has sold one of his paintings to Cambridge University Press, which is using it as the cover for Noam Chomsky’s next book. I can’t be sure, but from the web site, I think it must be this. The artist was delighted, but pointed out that Chomsky had got the picture upside down. If that’s the way Professor Chomsky wants it, that’s how the book will be, replied the publishers. I only wish that Larry Trask were still alive to appreciate the story.