mimetic

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But Magritte suggests that art is always mimetic, if not of the external world then at the very least of consciousness.

From Washington Post

The building block of the internet is a referential, signifying, mimetic, poetics.

From Los Angeles Times

It does, though, probe some fascinating ideas, like the peculiar ownership that fans feel toward a team and its players — a level of mimetic engagement that theater rarely achieves, Broadway musicals excepted.

From New York Times

The truth is not arrived at by purely mimetic means.

From New York Times

Inspired by the permanent exhibition “The Struggle for Justice” at the National Portrait Gallery, where Burgess is the Smithsonian’s first choreographer-in-residence, the social justice series offers both oblique and mimetic reflection on its subjects.

From Washington Post