Hypergraphy // the artistic synthesis of writing
by bg-martin
Hypergraphy, also called hypergraphics and metagraphics, is a critical method developed by the Lettrist movement in the 1950s, which encompasses a synthesis of writing and other forms of media. Isidore Isou, the founder of Lettrism, said that “Metagraphics or post-writing, encompassing all the means of ideographic, lexical and phonetic notation, supplements the means of expression based on sound by adding a specifically plastic dimension, a visual facet which is irreducible and escapes oral labelling
Categories: Art, Art Movement, Writing • Tags: art, graphic, hypergraphy, Lettrist, Lettrist movement, method, Psychogeography, technique, text