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100 1 Keyes, Bob,|d1962-|eauthor.
245 14 The isolation artist :|bscandal, deception, and the last
days of Robert Indiana|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /
|cBob Keyes.
250 Unabridged.
264 1 [United States] :|bBlackstone Publishing,|c2022.
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511 0 Read by Traber Burns.
520 When reclusive, millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in
2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as
an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of
fraud. Here is the true story of the artist's final days,
the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him,
and the inner workings of art as very big business. "I'm
an artist, not a business man," Robert Indiana said,
refusing to copyright his iconic LOVE sculpture in 1965.
An odd and tortured soul, an artist who wanted both fame
and solitude, Indiana surrounded himself with people to
manage his life and work. Yet, he frequently changed his
mind and often fired or belittled those who worked with
him. By 2008, when Indiana created the sculpture HOPE-or
did he?-the artist had signed away his work for others to
exploit, creating doubt about whether he had even seen
artwork sold for very high prices under his name. At the
time of his death, Indiana left an estate worth millions-
and unsettling suspicions. There were allegations of
fraudulent artwork, of elder abuse, of caregivers who
subjected him to horrendous living conditions. There were
questions about the inconclusive autopsy and rumors that
his final will had been signed under coercion. There were
strong suspicions about the freeloaders who'd attached
themselves to the famous artist. "In the final hours of
his life," the author writes, "Robert Indiana was without
the grace of a better angel, as the people closest to him
covered their tracks and plotted their defenses." With
unparalleled access to the key players in Indiana's life,
author Bob Keyes tells a fast-paced and riveting story
that provides a rare inside look into the life of an
artist as well as the often unscrupulous world of high-end
art. The listener is taken inside the world of art dealers,
law firms, and an array of local characters in Maine whose
lives intersected with the internationally revered artist
living in an old Odd Fellows Hall on Vinalhaven Island.
The Isolation Artist is for anyone interested in
contemporary art, business, and the perilous intersection
between them. It an extraordinary window into the life and
death of a singular and contradictory American artist-one
whose work touched countless millions through everything
from postage stamps to political campaigns to museums-even
as he lived and died in isolation, with a lack of love,
the loss of hope, and lots and lots of money. "Bob Keyes
has constructed an aptly circular narrative to explore
Robert Indiana's LOVE-less hoarding of hurt in a Maine-
island fortress worthy of Stephen King or Jeffrey Epstein.
Connecting the dots, from Indiana's classic Sixties stand
for art over money, to his later-life King Baby rage at
the money-mad art world he believed had gypped him,
Keyes's fast-paced investigation reveals the ever-
diminishing forms that Indiana's grandiose self-deceit
took as he seduced ringkissers and faked four-letter
remakes, cashing in on the kind of decamillion-dollar
grift and plunder that made the artist's final days a
signpost for the too-much-but-never-enough era that is
still defrauding LOVE and HOPE." "The Isolation Artist is
a scandalously good tale of intrigue set on a remote Maine
island and featuring a rogue's gallery of art hucksters,
small-town grifters, and self-dealing drug addicts. But
the chief rogue in Bob Keyes's masterful investigation is
Robert Indiana, a troubled genius who was often more
trouble than he was worth and whose death has revealed
webs of deceit that Keyes excels in unspinning." "The
Isolation Artist is a richly-reported tale of artistic
genius undone by extravagance, greed, and age. Bob Keyes
has delivered a singular book, revealing all the players
and palace intrigue surrounding the life-and controversial
death-of American icon Robert Indiana. I've been a fan of
Keyes' work for years, and this feels like a book he was
born to write, cracking the har
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
600 10 Indiana, Robert,|d1928-2018|xLast years.
650 0 Artists|zUnited States|vBiography.
650 0 Artists|zMaine|vBiography.
650 0 Authors, American|zMaine.
650 0 Art and society|zUnited States|xHistory|y21st century.
700 1 Burns, Traber,|enarrator.
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