{"product_id":"wastework-early-modern-stories-from-the-cutting-room-floor-paperback","title":"Wastework: Early Modern Stories from the Cutting Room Floor - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancesca Borgo\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRuth Ezra\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe book offers innovative and interdisciplinary studies about the reuse and value of waste and discards in early modern material culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaper scraps, metal filings, wool shearings... dismantled sets, spoiled rags, animal blood... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow 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? \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWastework\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 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 theater, and venture into the smith's foundry and the chemist's laboratory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancesca Borgo\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer at the University of St Andrews and Principal Investigator of the five-year Lise Meitner Group \u003ci\u003eDecay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History\u003c\/i\u003e at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome. \u003cb\u003eRuth Ezra\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, where she specializes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.45 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173327716601,"sku":"9788833672793","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ubm99K6eiL9788833672793.webp?v=1767629036","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/wastework-early-modern-stories-from-the-cutting-room-floor-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}