| Wreckage: My Father's Legacy of Art & Junk Contributor(s): Feinstein, Sascha (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611487854 ISBN-13: 9781611487855 Publisher: Bucknell University Press OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 759.13 |
| LCCN: 2017000008 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 218 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this memoir, Sascha Feinstein recounts life with his father, Sam Feinstein, who was both a brilliant artist and a hoarder of monumental proportions. He collected only uncollectible objects--artifacts that required him to give them importance--and at the time of his death in 2003, his hoarding had fundamentally destroyed all three of his large homes. Despite this, Sam Feinstein was a remarkable painter and art teacher. This strange double helix of creativity and destruction guides these collage-like reflections. Like his students' canvases--paintings inspired by enormous still lifes constructed from the world's refuse--this book incorporates myriad sources in order to create a more layered experience for the reader. The final result is the depiction of a painter with the highest artistic ideals who nevertheless left behind an incalculable amount of physical and emotional wreckage. |