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Citizen Keane : The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes by Cletus Nelson & Adam Parfrey is a art available to read on EtoBox.

What is Citizen Keane : The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes about?

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. And now director Tim Burton is filming a movie about the Keanes called Big Eyes , and it's scheduled for release in 2014. Burton's Ed Wood , starring Johnny Depp, was based upon the Feral House book edited and published by Parfrey about the angora sweater-wearing B-film director. Citizen Keane is a book-length expansion of Parfrey's original article, providing fascinating biographical and sociological details, photographs, color reproductions, and appendices with legal documents and pseudonymous ess

Who reads Citizen Keane : The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes?

Author

Cletus Nelson & Adam Parfrey

Publisher

Feral House

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781936239955

Category

art

Subjects

True Crime, Memoir, Sports

Rating

3.25 / 5 (118 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14