graphomania

But his own drawing took a strange direction and he soon turned to senseless graphomania.

But this type imperceptibly turns into a characteristic form that one might term the graphomania of the Project.

We would appear to be in the midst of a full-blown epidemic of graphomania.

In Japan, "graphomania" was one type of pun.

It's a new version of Dahl9 and just as bogus-linguistic graphomania, verbal incontinence.

We have graphomania.

Examples include entoptic graphomania, fumage and the movement of liquid down a vertical surface.

According to Kundera, graphomania is the groundless claim, sometimes being large-scale, of being a writer:

The book forms part of his surrealist art theory, specifically on the area of entopic graphomania, a surrealist technique invented by the author.

"Our universal graphomania produces a million titles a year, in printings of several thousand copies," writes Zaid, a Mexican poet, critic and business writer.

Outside the psychiatric definitions of graphomania and related conditions, the word is used more broadly to label the urge and need to write excessively, whether professional or not.

Surautomatism includes cubomania, entopic graphomania and various types of what the Romanian surrealists called "indecipherable writing".

Best known for her paintings, Colquhoun invented new Surrealist techniques, including graphomania, stillomania, and parsemage.

"Graphomania" is also used as part of the name of several surrealist methods, including entopic graphomania.

April 27, 2008 The novelist Alexander McCall Smith; Katie Roiphe on Germaine Greer; Rachel Donadio on American graphomania.

Dolfi or Dolphi Trost (1916 in Brăila - 1966 in Chicago, Illinois) was a Romanian surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, and the instigator of entopic graphomania.

Max Nordau, in his attack to what he saw as degenerate art, frequently used the term 'graphomania' to label the production of the artists he condemned (most notably Richard Wagner or the French symbolist poets )

In weak moments, the results can look like a case of graphomania, but in this particular show a sense of fun is paramount, just as it was in Picasso's Antibes series (to which some of these Mattas have a resemblance) in the late 1940's.

Entopic graphomania is a surrealist and automatic method of drawing in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots; these can be either "curved lines... or straight lines."

Some Romanian surrealists invented a number of surrealist techniques (such as cubomania, entoptic graphomania, and the movement of liquid down a vertical surface) that purported to take automatism to an absurd point, and the name given, "surautomatism", implies that the methods "go beyond" automatism, but this position is controversial.

The term 'graphomania' has been used in early 19th century by Esquirol and later by Eugen Bleuler, becoming more or less usual Graphomania is near condition to typomania - obsessiveness with seeing one's name in publication or with writing for being published, excessive symbolism or typology.