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100 1 $aParfrey, Adam,$d1957-2018,$eauthor.
245 10 $aCitizen Keane :$bthe big lies behind the big eyes /$cAdam Parfrey and Cletus Nelson.
264 1 $a[Port Townsend, WA] :$bFeral House,$c[2014]
300 $axiii, 185 pages, 40 numbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 161-[168]).
520 $aThough he often described himself as a masterful artist comparable to Michelangelo, Walter was best skilled in his promotion of mechanically reproduced art. Keane was able to sell millions of lithographs and postcards with art bearing his name, most eventually finding themselves relegated to the corners of thrift stores -- Back cover.
520 $aTeary, big-eyed orphans epitomized American kitsch art in the 1960s. Walter Keane was a masterful self-promoter and the credited artist of the weepy waifs, but decades of lawsuits and countersuits revealed the reality that Keane had forced his wife Margaret to sign his name to her own paintings. The authors provide fascinating biographical and sociological details, along with legal documents-- and pseudonymous essays by Tom Wolfe inflating big eye art to those painted by the great masters.
505 0 $aSuburbia's favorite artist -- Gray flannel suit: the reinvented Walter Keane -- Margaret: life before Walter -- An evening at the hungry i: North Beach beginnings -- Waif world: big eyes, big money -- The split: going their separate ways -- Down and out in La Jolla: Walter's last stand -- Tomorrow forever -- Appendices. When Keane art was the enemy: the Stanford Rat protest ; Big eye dolls go lowbrow ; Those Keane kids / by Jim Morton.
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