Paper scraps, metal filings, wool shearings… dismantled sets, spoiled rags, animal blood…<\/p>\n
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<\/em><\/strong> 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. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The book offers innovative and interdisciplinary studies about the reuse and value of waste and discards in early modern material culture.
1.\tFrancesca Borgo e Ruth Ezra, The Work of Wast – Introduction
\n2.\tVittoria Di Palma, The Promise of Waste
\n3.\tDaniel M. Zolli, Spazzatura and the Virtue of Making Do
\n4.\tVictoria Addona, Early Modern Machine Theater and the Reuse of Ingenious Things
\n5.\tCarlo Scapecchi, Follegram: A Netherlandish Method to Recycle Wool Shearings in Sixteenth-Century Florence
\n6.\tVitale Zanchettin, Walking on Waste: Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) and the Legacy of Venetian terrazzo
\n7.\tAnna-Claire Stinebring, The Crying Bride: Wastefulness and Playfulness in Netherlandish Genre Scenes
\n8.\tLucy Razzall, “Nothing but a thin painted Past-board”: Substance, Surface, and Paradox in Early Modern England
\n9.\tJohn Gagné, Rags and Riches: The Paper Workshop’s Suppliers before Industrialization
\n10.\tLisa Coulardot, Waste, Innovation, Efficiency: Jean Hellot and Dyestuffs in Eighteenth-Century France
\n11.\t Justin Abraham Linds, “Efficacious Fermentation”: Making Value from Rot on Eighteenth-Century Indigo Plantations
\n12.\t Stephanie O’Rourke, Subterranean Flows, from the Volcano to the Coal Mine
\n13.\t Marco Armiero, Afterword
\nAcknowledgments
\nIndex
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