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Ideogramme




It comparable in manner to onomatopoetics or Onomatopoeia . With onomatopoeia the word said sounds like what it represents: Moo, Whack, Bang, ''etc'' ''etc''. In an ideogramme a word or group of words visually embody their content.

One of the first and most reconizable ideogrammes is movement.

In November 1917 at Vieux Colombier Apollinaire stated in his lecture ''New Spirit and the Poets'' that "Typographical artifices worked out with great audacity have the advantage of bringing to life a visual lyricism which was almost unknown before our age."