Wastework

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