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urn:uuid:f4dc9b22-74e5-4ae8-803c-be8dd5dd529d 03 15 9783110668780 00 EB E107 10 01 01 From Memory to Marble Vol 1 The Historical Frieze of the Voortrekker Monument, Part I: The Frieze 1 A01 Elizabeth Rankin 2 A01 Rolf Michael Schneider 01 eng 00 508 03 10 SOC008010 01 06 03 00 <p>For the first time the 92-metre frieze of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, one of the largest historical narratives in marble, has been made the subject of a book.</p><p>The pictorial narrative of the Boer pioneers who conquered South Africa’s interior during the ‘Great Trek’ (1835-52) represents a crucial period of South Africa’s past. Forming the concept of the frieze both reflected on and contributed to the country’s socio-political debates in the 1930s and 1940s when it was made. The frieze is unique in that it provides rare evidence of the complex processes followed in creating a major monument.</p><p>Based on unpublished documents, drawings and models, these processes are unfolded step by step, from the earliest discussions of the purpose and content of the frieze through all the stages of its design to its shipping to post-war Italy to be copied into marble and final installation in the Monument. The book examines how visual representation transforms historical memory in what it chooses to recount, and the forms in which it depicts this. It also investigates the active role the Monument played in the development of apartheid, and its place in post-apartheid heritage.</p> 04 00 Synopsis of Part II  Acknowledgements  Abbreviations of key archives, documents, names  Part I: The Frieze Introduction  1 Context  A Great Trek?  The Afrikaner cause  The Monument committee  Funding  The site  The centenary   2 Concept  Early ideas  Van Wouw and Moerdyk  Topics for the Great Trek  The role of the architect  Coetzer and the frieze  3 Process  The sculptors  Harmony Hall  Models and portraits  The full-scale frieze  The plaster casts  The frieze in Italy  Homecoming  4 Image  Composition  The problem of form   From plaster to marble  The visual narrative  Iconography and ideology  viii  Contents 5 Heritage  An Afrikaner monument  Destroyed or redefined?  Re-branding the Monument  Representations and rejoinders  Epilogue  Illustrations Part I  Bibliography of works consulted  Index of people Part I  Index of places Part I African Minds 01 African Minds 04 01 20241002 02 WORLD 06 15 9781928502852 06 15 9783110668780 06 15 9783110669046 WORLD 09 African Minds 20 01