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...year he won the right to represent workers at the mammoth Di Giorgio ranch in an election monitored by the American Arbitration Association. Both Di Giorgio and Schenley have since sold their table-grape holdings, however, and Chavez's only contracts now are with wine producers: Gallo, Christian Brothers, Masson, Almaden, Franzia Brothers and Novitiate...
...most of the opportunity. He let his playful brush and imagination run rampant over walls, doors and ceilings. By the time Ernst was finished, he had transformed the small stone villa into a uniquely hallucinatory backdrop, hi these surroundings, the founders of Surrealism-Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Andre Masson, Michel Leiris, Robert Desnos and, of course, the Eluards-met and dreamed aloud the bizarre fantasies that would reshape much 20th century...
Surrealism soon became a principal topic of conversation. The surrealist émigrés from Europe (Roberto Malta, André Masson, Max Ernst) arrived during World War II, and their intellectual intensity impressed the Americans. Some, including Motherwell and David Hare, worked with the surrealists and published in their small magazines. Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery gave many of the "new American pioneers" their first one-man shows...
...Appointment on Prila" by Bob Shaw; "Lost Ground" by David I. Masson; "Golden Acres" by Kit Reed; and "Criminal in Utopia" by Mack Reynolds are clever and well-written, but that's about...
...Masson's approach was even more prophetic. Because he found the constant reloading of a brush impeded his "psychic impulses," he took to ladling glue onto a canvas, wiggling his fingers over it in patterns, then pouring sand into the glue to capture them. In addition, he squeezed color directly onto his canvases from a special tube, thereby antedating the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock by 20 years...