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Author:   Francesca Borgo ,  Ruth Ezra
Publisher:   Officina Libraria
Imprint:   Officina Libraria
ISBN:  

9788833672793

ISBN 10:   8833672794
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   14 July 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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1. Francesca Borgo e Ruth Ezra, The Work of Wast – Introduction 2. Vittoria Di Palma, The Promise of Waste 3. Daniel M. Zolli, Spazzatura and the Virtue of Making Do 4. Victoria Addona, Early Modern Machine Theater and the Reuse of Ingenious Things 5. Carlo Scapecchi, Follegram: A Netherlandish Method to Recycle Wool Shearings in Sixteenth-Century Florence 6. Vitale Zanchettin, Walking on Waste: Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) and the Legacy of Venetian terrazzo 7. Anna-Claire Stinebring, The Crying Bride: Wastefulness and Playfulness in Netherlandish Genre Scenes 8. Lucy Razzall, “Nothing but a thin painted Past-board”: Substance, Surface, and Paradox in Early Modern England 9. John Gagné, Rags and Riches: The Paper Workshop’s Suppliers before Industrialization 10. Lisa Coulardot, Waste, Innovation, Efficiency: Jean Hellot and Dyestuffs in Eighteenth-Century France 11. Justin Abraham Linds, “Efficacious Fermentation”: Making Value from Rot on Eighteenth-Century Indigo Plantations 12. Stephanie O’Rourke, Subterranean Flows, from the Volcano to the Coal Mine 13. Marco Armiero, Afterword Acknowledgments Index Image Credits

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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.

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