The earliest theory of art, that of the Greek philosophers, proposed that art was mimesis, imitation of reality.

postmodern writing "turns out to be mimetic after all [...]"

Biblical style is famous for its stony reticence, for a mimesis that Erich Auerbach called 'fraught with background'

although they preserve such experience, they do so at a mimetic remove

through a process akin to mimetic desire, the audience began to experience what Fry saw, experienced with him a sameness of vision.