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Hypergraphs vs Hypergraphy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hypergraphs and hypergraphy

is that hypergraphs is while hypergraphy is a key method of lettrism that merges poetry with visual arts.

hypergraphs

English

Noun

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  • hypergraphy

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  • A key method of Lettrism that merges poetry with visual arts.
  • * 1983 , University of Iowa Museum of Art, Lettrisme: into the present , 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 , 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 , 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

    See also

    * hypergraphia