Autographics
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The creation of autobiographical works using a variety of technologies and materials, such as signs, symbols, and visual arts, as well as words. uncountable
"This special issue of Biography devoted to exploring the potential of autographics as a concept and a practice is thick with illustrations, for graphic life narrative resists reduction to summary or translation into a single medium, and requires that we pause and explore the sight, the sounds, the sensational feel of autobiographical representations."
Example
More examples"This special issue of Biography devoted to exploring the potential of autographics as a concept and a practice is thick with illustrations, for graphic life narrative resists reduction to summary or translation into a single medium, and requires that we pause and explore the sight, the sounds, the sensational feel of autobiographical representations."
Etymology
Coined by Gillian Whitlock from auto- + graphics
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