La lettre et la figure dans Calligrammes de Guillaume Apollinaire

Abstract

This article is devoted to Guillaume Apollinaire original poetic experience’s who tried to found a synthetic art combining heterogeneous semiotic systems such as painting and poetry. We propose, then, to study the various complementary relationship, polysemy or counterpoint established between the letters, poetic text and pictorial images.

Keywords

• Guillaume Apollinaire
• visual poetry
• calligram
• verbal text
• polysemy
• painting