Hans Arp: Resistance and the Philosophy of Virtual Creation
Hans Arp: Resistance and the Philosophy of Virtual Creation
As an artistic movement, Zurich Dada offers very little visual residue. What remains is uneven and inconsistent but is wholly redeemed by the remarkable works that Hans Arp, and then Sophie Taeuber, produced during this phase. In this chapter, Arp’s so-called ‘chance’ collages are documented in terms of visual strategies of cultural resistance, read through Deleuzian schizoanalysis as correlates for creation itself, and detouring to Herman Melville’s short story ‘Bartleby’, along with Deleuze’s readings of a passive yet destructive resistance thoroughly revised in their historical context.
Keywords: Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber, virtual and actual, chance, passive resistance, Peter Hallward, Henri Bergson
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