Calligram

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{{Short description|Written work arranged in a way that creates a visual image}}

{{About|the type of artwork|the collection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire|Calligrammes|"Calligrams", the NYRB book series on China|New York Review Books}}

File:Calligramme.svg describing and visually representing his lover. Parts of the face's image (such as the hat, eye, nose, mouth, neck) each use words associated specifically with that part.]]

A calligram is a set of words arranged in such a way that it forms a thematically related image. It can be a poem, a phrase, a portion of scripture, or a single word; the visual arrangement can rely on certain use of the typeface, calligraphy or handwriting, for instance along non-parallel and curved text lines, or in shaped paragraphs. The image created by the words illustrates the text by expressing visually what it says, or something closely associated; it can also, on purpose, show something contradictory with the text or otherwise be misleading, or can contribute additional thoughts and meanings to the text.

Writers

Guillaume Apollinaire was a famous calligram writer and author of a book of poems called Calligrammes.

José Juan Tablada wrote a book of Spanish-language calligrams entitled Li-Po y otros poemas{{Cite web |title=Li-Po y otros poemas |url=http://www.tablada.unam.mx/poesia/lipo/index.htm |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=www.tablada.unam.mx}}.

Gallery

File:Shiite Calligraphy symbolising Ali as Tiger of God.svg|Calligram of a tiger in Arabic script

File:Ioane sineli, klemaqsi (snake).svg|Calligram of a snake in Georgian script

File:Guillaume Apollinaire Calligramme.JPG|Calligram about the Eiffel Tower by Guillaume Apollinaire

File:El Cal·ligrama més gran del món (26517405610).jpg|Large calligram at the Valencian Museum of Ethnology

File:OperaIntera.jpg|"Biblical Cosmography", large calligram of the Bible in Latin by Gianluca Bosi

File:عظیم فلاح.jpg|A calligrapher at work on the school wall

See also

References

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  • {{cite book|last=Deme|first=Zoltan|chapter=Poem-miniatures|title=Chords of Scales: Selected Fictions, Essays, and Studies|publisher=Universe Pub|location= Warwick Township, N.Y |year=1995 |lccn=2003278749 |isbn=9635500726 |chapter-url=http://www.zoltandemmeworks.net/eng/Poem-poems-one-word-poem-miniature.html#maincolumn_full}}
  • {{cite book|last=Kajima|first=Shōzō|title=Post-War Japanese Poetry|location= Harmondsworth|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1972|oclc=622904|isbn=0140421459}} (with many Japanese calligrams)
  • {{cite book|first=Sonja A.J.|last=Neef|title=Kalligramme: Zur Medialität Einer Schrift : Anhand Von Paul Van Ostaijens De Feesten Van Angst En Pijn|location=Amsterdam|publisher=ASCA Press|year=2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AgFpRlht8ykC|language=de|isbn=90-76123-04-7}}

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