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Citizen Keane
Adam Parfrey
Citizen Keane
Adam Parfrey
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.
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 1 |
Released | March 17, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781504608176 |
Label | Blackstone Audiobooks |
Dimensions | 133 × 184 × 13 mm · 150 g (Weight (estimated)) |
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