ASEBL Journal Volume 11, Number 2 | Page 28

ASEBL Journal – Volume 11 Issue 2, Spring 2015 viewer can be just as important for the meaning of a work as the intention of the artist” (Forward, 2004). Each of these readings of Victory is that of a viewer attributing mental positions and perspectives behind the artwork. Although writing about literature, Lisa Zunshine calls this metarepresentationality, the adaptive ability to “keep track of sources of our representations – to metarepresent them...a particularly cognitive endowment closely related to our mind-reading ability” (2006, 47) (for more, see Leslie 1987). The term applies