calligram
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French calligramme.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]calligram (plural calligrams)
- A word, phrase or longer text in which the typeface or the layout has some special significance.
- Synonyms: carmen figuratum, figure poem
- 1993, Willard Bohn, Apollinaire, Visual Poetry, and Art Criticism, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 99:
- The next calligram, which depicts a horse, presents several interesting problems. Among other things, the figure is juxtaposed with seven lines of poetry arranged in traditional fashion.
- 2000, Daniel Albright, Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 263:
- A calligram has ambitions beyond those of an ideogram: an ideogram is a picture of meaning, but a calligram intends to provide a picture of experience as it impinges on the whole sensorium. An ideogram is centripetal, convergent, a focusing […]
- A signature made from interwoven Arabic words.
Translations
[edit]text in which the layout has special significance
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- calligram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Islamic calligraphy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia