Outline 11/8/10

1. Introduction

2. Léger’s machine paintings: 1918-24 – space, objecthood and the commodity after Cubism

3. Valences of the sphere – problem of the absolute object [this chapter looks at the long history of the sphere in art and theory; also considers case studies of interwar avant-gardism, ubiquity of the sphere and circle, pictorial aporia]; planetary space of technology
[Consider Badiou’s Le Siecle; Heidegger and/or Hegel]

4. Léger and Le Corbusier/Ozenfant, 1924-30: Equivalence

5. Le Corbusier’s minimalism: circuitry, infrastructure, “poem of walls”; factory space/factory as object; [“why blast furnaces matter now more than ever”] – pursue analogy with ‘60s minimalism.