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