mimesis
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I still wonder if this is a kind of clever mimesis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2018
In victory a kind of mimesis has begun.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2018
Though this wasn’t the only score of his that made listeners wonder whether he entertained ideas of representation, mimesis, evocation in his work, he — like Cunningham — kept quiet about these matters.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2016
His objective, it seemed, was to abandon mimesis, the depiction of people and things.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016
The origin of art is not mimesis, but mimesis springs up out of art, out of emotional expression, and constantly and closely neigh47bours it.
From Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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