Meaning of hypergraphy | Babel Free

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A key method of Lettrism that merges poetry with visual arts.

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“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.”

“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.”

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

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