Wastework : Early Modern Stories from the Cutting Room Floor
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
8833672794
ISBN-13
9788833672793
Publisher
Officina Libraria
Imprint
Officina Libraria
Country of Manufacture
IT
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 28th, 2025
Print length
240 Pages
Product Classification:
History of art / art & design stylesMuseology & heritage studiesWaste management
Ksh 4,500.00
Werezi Extended Catalogue
0 in stock
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Secure
Quality
Fast
The book offers innovative and interdisciplinary studies about the reuse and value of waste and discards in early modern material culture.
The book offers innovative and interdisciplinary studies about the reuse and value of waste and discards in early modern material culture.
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 theater, 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.
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 theater, 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.
Get Wastework by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Officina Libraria and it has pages.
