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 essays by Tom Wolfe inflating big
eye art to those painted by the great masters.
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