Wastework

Early Modern Stories from the Cutting Room Floor

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Paper scraps, metal filings, wool shearings... dismantled sets, spoiled rags, animal blood...How did these ostensibly worthless by-products of art and industry avoid the flames of the kitchen hearth or the sweep of the apprentice’s broom to spark ingenuity, generate new forms, and propel further acts of creation? Wastework moves beyond the well-researched category of spoliation, foregrounding waste as a material expression of the practices of ordering and classification by which people adjudicated between collection and disposal, wanted and unwanted, salvation and loss. Authors follow the afterlives of spent books and soiled textiles, peek behind the curtain of machine theatre, and venture into the smith’s foundry and the chemist’s laboratory. Bringing together research from historians of art, architecture, science, and the environment, this volume examines acts of disposal and reuse and the consequences these carry for the study of early modern material culture. Drawing from the fields of discard studies and Eco materialism, contributors test the usefulness of contemporary formulations—secondary product cycles, material fatigue, metabolic flows, sustainability, recycling—while also proposing new categories with which to re-imagine the discarded past.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-19
Mått165 x 240 x 19 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOfficina Libraria
Antal sidor240
FörlagOfficina Libraria
ISBN9788833672793

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Francesca Borgo is Lecturer at the University of St Andrews and Principal Investigator of the five-year Lise Meitner Group Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome. Ruth Ezra is Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, where she specialises in the material and visual culture of early modern northern Europe. She is most curious about techniques and materials, workshop practices, and feedback loops between process and form.

1.Francesca Borgo e Ruth Ezra, The Work of Wast – Introduction2.Vittoria Di Palma, The Promise of Waste3.Daniel M. Zolli, Spazzatura and the Virtue of Making Do4.Victoria Addona, Early Modern Machine Theater and the Reuse of Ingenious Things5.Carlo Scapecchi, Follegram: A Netherlandish Method to Recycle Wool Shearings in Sixteenth-Century Florence6.Vitale Zanchettin, Walking on Waste: Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) and the Legacy of Venetian terrazzo7.Anna-Claire Stinebring, The Crying Bride: Wastefulness and Playfulness in Netherlandish Genre Scenes8.Lucy Razzall, “Nothing but a thin painted Past-board”: Substance, Surface, and Paradox in Early Modern England9.John Gagné, Rags and Riches: The Paper Workshop’s Suppliers before Industrialization10.Lisa Coulardot, Waste, Innovation, Efficiency: Jean Hellot and Dyestuffs in Eighteenth-Century France11. Justin Abraham Linds, “Efficacious Fermentation”: Making Value from Rot on Eighteenth-Century Indigo Plantations12. Stephanie O’Rourke, Subterranean Flows, from the Volcano to the Coal Mine13. Marco Armiero, AfterwordAcknowledgmentsIndexImage Credits