{"product_id":"citizen-keane-the-big-lies-behind-the-big-eyes-paperback","title":"Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCletus Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdam Parfrey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane--the credited artist of the weepy waifs, for a \u003ci\u003eSan Diego Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParfrey's story was reprinted in \u003ci\u003eJuxtapoz\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBig Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, and it's scheduled for release in 2014. Burton's \u003ci\u003eEd Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Johnny Depp, was based upon the Feral House book edited and published by Parfrey about the angora sweater-wearing B-film director.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCitizen Keane\u003c\/i\u003e 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 essays by Tom Wolfe inflating big eye art to those painted by the great masters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCletus Nelson: Cletus Nelson is a contributor to books published by Process Media, The Disinformation Company, and Creation Press.\u003cbr\u003eAdam Parfrey is the editor of Apocalypse Culture, Apocalypse Culture II, It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps, and co-editor of Sin-a-Rama: Sleaze Paperbacks of the '60s. He is the co-writer (with Craig Heimbichner) of Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and their Influence on American Society, and (with Maja D'Aoust) The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction and its Hermetic Influence Throughout the Ages, (with Brendan Mullen and Don Bolles) Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs. Adam also wrote the compilation Cult Rapture, which contained his early feature article on the crazy Keane story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9.15 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769933005088,"sku":"9781936239955","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/57e4dede06ce715186a273d62fdf3962.webp?v=1780360132","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/citizen-keane-the-big-lies-behind-the-big-eyes-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}