[audiobook] Car Care QA: The Auto Owner's Complete Problem-Solver by Mort Schultz at Arts-Photography

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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 Keanemdash;the credited artist of the weepy waifs; for a San Diego Reader cover story in 1992mdash;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.Parfreys 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 its scheduled for release in 2014. Burtons 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 Parfreys 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.