| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 33 min.)) : digital. |
| Performer |
Read by Bronson Pinchot. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Painters -- United States -- Biography.
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Children in art.
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| Added Author |
Nelson, Cletus, author.
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Pinchot, Bronson, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781504608121 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1504608127 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11310851 |
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