Meanings
- uncountableA key method of Lettrism that merges poetry with visual arts.
Isou and Lemaitre further introduced scriptural systems (metagraphics, or postwriting, and hypergraphy, respectively) that fetishize the graphic as irreducible to vocalization.
2001, Steve McCaffery, Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics, page 1712 more examples
The paradigm had been different for artists such as Picasso and Braque, Paul Klee and Mark Tobey who had used writing, letters, signs, and symbols before hypergraphy; their works were seen as figurative or non-figurative.
1983, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Lettrisme: into the present, page 32Isou has also explored the domain of the novel into which he has introduced hypergraphy.¹² His first novel, Les journaux des Dieux, is essentially visual: words are replaced by images.
1984, Association internationale d'etudes du Sud-Est europeen, Papers for the V. Congress of Southeast European Studies, page 142Synonyms: hypergraphics, metagraphics, metagraphy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA key method of Lettrism that merges poetry with visual arts.
Origin
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