hypergraphy

Noun

hypergraphy (uncountable)

1. A key method of Lettrism that merges poetry with visual arts.
   • 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 32
   • 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.1984, Association internationale d'etudes du Sud-Est europeen, Papers for the V. Congress of Southeast European Studies, page 142

   Synonyms:

   hypergraphics, metagraphics, metagraphy