hypergraphy

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ -graphy

Noun

hypergraphy (uncountable)

1. A key method of Lettrism that merges poetry with visual arts.
   • 1983, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Lettrisme: into the present‎^[1], page 32:

     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.

   • 1984, Association internationale d'etudes du Sud-Est europeen, Papers for the V. Congress of Southeast European Studies‎^[2], page 142:

     Isou 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.

   • 2001, Steve McCaffery, Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics‎^[3], page 171:

     Isou and Lemaitre further introduced scriptural systems (metagraphics, or postwriting, and hypergraphy, respectively) that fetishize the graphic as irreducible to vocalization.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with hypergraphia, a medical term.

Synonyms

• (Lettrist method): hypergraphics, metagraphics, metagraphy

See also

• hypergraphia