Description: Teary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades.When Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane—the credited artist of the weepy waifs—for a San Diego Reader cover story in 1992, he discovered some shocking facts. Decades of lawsuits and countersuits revealed the reality that Keane was more of a con man than an artist, and that he forced his wife Margaret to sign his name to her own paintings. As a result, those weepy waifs may not have been as capricious an invention as they seemed.Parfrey's story was reprinted in Juxtapoz magazine and inspired a Margaret Keane exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum. Director Tim Burton made a movie about the Keanes called Big Eyes, which came out in 2014.Citizen Keane is a book-length expansion of Parfrey's original article, providing fascinating biographical and sociological details.
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Book Title: Citizen Keane : the Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes
Author: Cletus Nelson, ADAM Parfrey
Format: Compact Disc
Language: English
Topic: Hoaxes & Deceptions, Popular Culture, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Art, True Crime
