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...some did get through, settling for the most part in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Among them, from Paris, were Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian, Jacques Lipchitz and the core group of Surrealists who went to New York City: Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Yves Tanguy, Andre Masson and Roberto Matta. From Germany, Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters and the Dada collagist John Heartfield reached London, while Max Beckmann, Josef Albers and George Grosz made it to America...
...them: Birds' Hell, 1938, his one clearly political work, a lurid scene of martyrdom with a bird-headed torturer carving parallel stripes on the back of a sacrificial prisoner (Beckmann himself?) while figures in the background throw up their arms in a collective Nazi salute. Some painters, like Andre Masson, were essentially unchanged (at least in their work) by American refuge--although the iconic, "primitive" violence and sexuality of Massons like The Seeded Earth, 1942, had a considerable effect on American painters, especially the young Jackson Pollock...
...Yorkerwriter Janet Malcolmwas cleared of libel in a lawsuit brought by a psychoanalyst who said she'd made up quotes in an unflattering article about him. A U.S. District Court jury in San Francisco found that two quotes used by Malcolm were indeed false, but it ruled that Jeffrey Masson failed to prove a deliberate or reckless disregard for the truth -- a higher standard that applies to public figures under fire. The 1992 New Yorker article focused on Masson's firing as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. After Masson's earlier win, the jury deadlocked on damages...
...obsession with Picasso reached a height of imitative flattery with his pastiches of the older painter's massive "classical" women in white fluted dresses. Likewise, when Dali the Surrealist was pupating, there was hardly a trope in his pictures of 1927-28 that didn't come out of Andre Masson, Ernst, Miro or Yves Tanguy...
MacKinnon's lover, the much maligned psychologist Jeffrey Masson wrote to Romano, "I am not threatening you... [but] I want you to know, if there is ever anything I can do to hurt your career, I will...