mimesis

How To Use mimesis In A Sentence

• Firstly, she explores issues to do with authenticity and replication, then mimesis, and finally the connections between work, leisure, learning and pleasure.
• The founding discovery of modernism has often been defined as the detachability of art from representation, from mimesis in the Aristotelian sense of unproblematic imitation.
• To free repetition from mimesis is to allow it, as Adrian Parr puts it, "the possibility of reinvention, that is to say repetition dissolves identities as it changes them, giving rise to something unrecognisable and productive Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_
• For the Greeks and the Romans memory had an intellectual and cognitive function, and therefore mimesis, as a tool of social memory, relies on cognitive abilities, human or animal.
• The tradition of ut pictura poesis, described in Horace's Art of Poetry, and Aristotle's mimesis historia, the imitation of human events discussed in Poetics, is embedded in Alberti's articulation of istoria. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
• In this sense, representation is the contemporary term that translates the Greek word mimesis, used by Plato and Aristotle to describe the making of likenesses.
• Top Picks Stockholm Art Western art has many traditions but none quite so strong as that invoked by the Greek term mimesis, or "representation. Playing With Perception
• With modernism and the avant-garde, postmodernists reject realism, mimesis, and linear forms of narrative.
• In English these are called mimetic words, or a mimesis, but who knows what that means anyway? JapanNewbie
• Her version of mimesis is strong enough for virtual worldmaking: it is a repeatable method for stimulating in the body an image that responds to the content of a particular idea. Seeing Is Reading