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Etymology

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From hyper- +‎ -graphy.

Noun

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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

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Not to be confused with hypergraphia, a medical term.

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