Date of Award
2008
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Program
Design and Manufacturing Engineering
Supervisor
Dr. Bridget Elliott
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Szabo, Maria E., "KALEIDOSCOPE VISION: MODERN PERSPECTIVES IN THE WORK OF PEGINICOL MACLEOD" (2008). Digitized Theses. 4923.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/4923