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Revision as of 20:51, 2 July 2024 by 2402:a00:400:f377:6430:9586:665b:c5cc (talk) (→Gallery: Mohd Eshtiyaq Ansari)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Written work arranged in a way that creates a visual image This article is about the type of artwork. For the collection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, see Calligrammes. For "Calligrams", the NYRB book series on China, see New York Review Books.
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.
Gallery
<gallery widths="200" heights="200" perrow="3"> 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|Biggest calligram in the world, part of the permanent exhibition of the Valencian Museum of Ethnology. File:Poire typo..JPG|In 1834 a French court ordered the satiric newspaper [[Le Ch
See also
References
Citations
- "Li-Po y otros poemas". www.tablada.unam.mx. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
Sources
- Deme, Zoltan (1995). "Poem-miniatures". Chords of Scales: Selected Fictions, Essays, and Studies. Warwick Township, N.Y: Universe Pub. ISBN 9635500726. LCCN 2003278749.
- Kajima, Shōzō (1972). Post-War Japanese Poetry. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140421459. OCLC 622904. (with many Japanese calligrams)
- Neef, Sonja A.J. (2000). Kalligramme: Zur Medialität Einer Schrift : Anhand Von Paul Van Ostaijens De Feesten Van Angst En Pijn (in German). Amsterdam: ASCA Press. ISBN 90-76123-04-7.
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