Wreckage: My Father's Legacy of Art & Junk

by Sascha Feinstein

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611487854
• ISBN13: 9781611487855
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"