autoicon
nounEtymology From auto- + icon.
1
Something that serves as an icon representing itself.
- […] as recently as the 1950s in Taiwan, flesh-body portraits were autoicons produced by a sustained process of self-starvation, while seated in a meditating position, relying on a diet including pine kernels and cinnabar to dehydrate the body […]2008, Robin Osborne, Jeremy Tanner, Art's Agency and Art History:
- Many regard as typically and preciously odd his wish to have his body mummified after death so that in place of a stone statue of himself he could be an 'autoicon'.2009, Keith Hayward, Shadd Maruna, Jayne Mooney, Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology: