Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes

by Adam Parfrey and Cletus Nelson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936239957
• ISBN13: 9781936239955
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Feral House
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"