Polyptych construction as historical methodology: an intertextual approach to the stories of Central Technical School’s past
Dustin Garnet
Adopting the lens of “new histories” as basis for my inquiry into institutional legacy art program at Toronto’s Central Technical School (CTS), I created a methodological framework informed by traditional form polyptych, in which many panels are joined together to show and tell multilayered stories connected central theme, demonstrate visually how interrelated, present openings other stories. In polyptychs, found means express both content research ways that artful, permeable, conductive. Through Prezi, digital presentation storytelling platform, discovered polyptych can become three-dimensional. The resulting series intertextual expressions create portrait complex, expansive, multigenerational make up history CTS. This article describes came see frame unpacking its historic roots; exploring it operates contemporary historical research; reflecting on identity an artist, teacher, researcher influences way organize within this framework.
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education