KALEIDOSCOPE VISION: MODERN PERSPECTIVES IN THE WORK OF PEGINICOL MACLEOD
Positioning the work of Canadian artist Pegi Nicol MacLeod (1904-1949) as a dynamic negotiation of modernism, this thesis examines the significance of everyday life and embodied existence to her artistic practice. By representationally revising domesticity, tactically modifying her home environment, and progressively engaging a broader community, Nicol MacLeod cultivated a modem integration of art and life. Rejecting transcendental purifications of modernism, she instead advocated the potency of perceptual and conceptual embodiment. Exploring the flux and immediacy of human interaction, Nicol MacLeod's paintings function perfomatively as modem evocations of art as experience.
Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian art, modernism, gender, painting, domesticity, everyday life, embodiment, female nude, performance, Pragmatism, Existentialism, film
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