Mimesis/Anti-Mimesis

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, , language: English, abstract: This book discusses the many meanings of the concept of Mimesis in relation to Representation and Aesthetics, and to the problem of the meaning of the Beautiful and the Sublime in the arts, to which the notion of Rituality is proposed as a solution. Finally it opens the question of Performativity as a way of understanding our everyday experience of Architecture.