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ESSAYS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES

Irene Enslé Bronner

Critical Commemorative Practices in The Lost Men France by Paul Emmanuel  

De Arte, 1–23. Taylor and Francis, November, 2025

Print ISSN: 0004-3389 Online ISSN: 2471-4100

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Mark Auslander and students enrolled at American University

Museums, Difficult Dialogues and Social Repair  

Transcript of an interview with Paul Emmanuel conducted by students in an undergraduate, anthropology course by Professor Mark Auslander at American University, Washington D.C., U.S.A., May, 2024

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Paul Emmanuel

Untethered: Exploring Intimacy and Estrangement in Military Culture and Civilian Society. 

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, May, 2024

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Irene Enslé Bronner

Light on loss in new works by Paul Emmanuel. 

'Image and Text' no 36, Taylor and Francis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, November, 2022

ISSN 2617-3255

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Karen von Veh and Landi Raubenheimer

Memorials, Landscape and White Masculinity: Dialogic Interventions in South African Art. 

'Image and Text' no 36, Taylor and Francis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, November, 2022

ISSN 2617-3255

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Mark Auslander
Altered Carbon: Dramas of Detachment. Reflections on Paul Emmanuel's Substance of Shadows.
'Moving Cube', University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, September, 2021

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Adelheid von Maltitz
Art, Place, Death: The Transformative Power of Dynamic Thresholds. 

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, July, 2021

Document ID: 2002119739

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Mark Auslander and Pamela Allara
Platform Number 5: Paul Emmanuel. 

'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog, Mark Auslander, June, 2020
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Karen von Veh
The Material of Mourning: Paul Emmanuel's Lost Men as Counter-memorials. 

'Image and Text' no 34, Taylor and Francis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, December, 2020
ISSN 2617-3255

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Ellen Schasttschneider, Mark Auslander and Pamela Allara
Ex Unitate Vires: Paul Emmanuel.

'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog, Mark Auslander, April, 2020
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Mark Auslander
Veil 1954: Paul Emmanuel.

'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog, Mark Auslander, April, 2020
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Pamela Allara
Carbon dad 2017: Paul Emmanuel.

'Art Beyond Quarantine', Online blog, Mark Auslander, March, 2020
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Pamela Allara and Mark Auslander
Between Men and Monuments: The Art of Paul Emmanuel.
'Art Beyond Quarantine',
Online blog, Mark Auslander, March, 2020

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Pamela Allara
Shrouds on the Somme's Body
'Paul Emmanuel', Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2020
ISBN 978-0-620-87116-7

Karen von Veh
Where Have All the Young Men Gone?
'Paul Emmanuel', Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2020
ISBN 978-0-620-87116-7

Annette Becker
Paul Emmanuel: The Lost Men France (2014)
'Paul Emmanuel', Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2020
ISBN 978-0-620-87116-7

Karen Von Veh
The Politics of Memory in South African Art.
'De Arte', UNISA Press, Pretoria, South Africa and Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, February, 2019
ISSN 0004-3389

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Andrew Peter Swanepoel
Repositioning the Problematic Gender Formation of a Generation of White South African Men Through Performance Art
Dissertation submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts at The University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, August, 2018

Robyn Sassen
Your Name, My Body.

'My View: The Arts at Large', Robyn Sassen, Johannesburg, South Africa, March, 2018
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Johan Thom
Impermanence: Paul Emmanuel.
'Paul Emmanuel: Impermanence', Fried Contemporary Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa, March, 2018

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Matthijs Sluiter
The Lost Men Project.
'Fonts in Use', Fonts in Use LLC, Oakland, California, USA, 2018

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Paul van Capelleveen
Paul Emmanuel, The Lost Men Project.
'Reading is Touching in The Art of Reading', Museum Meermanno, The Hague, The Netherlands, November, 2017

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Pamela Allara
Paul Emmanuel: The Counter-memorial in the Age of Permanent War.
'Aesthetic Justice', College Art Association Conference, New York, USA, February, 2017

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Pamela Allara
Shrouds on the Somme: Paul Emmanuel's World War I Counter-Memorial.
'Paul Emmanuel: Remnants', Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, January, 2016

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Pamela Allara
Mechanized Bodies: From the Armored Body to Technological Vision.
'Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict', School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, January, 2015

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Clare Humphries
Material Remains: The Afterlife of Personal Objects.
An project submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, pp 228 – 231, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, October, 2014

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Annette Becker
À guerre mondiale, art mondial.
'Voir La Grande Guerre – Un Autre Récit', Armand Colin, Paris, France, October, 2014
ISBN 978-2-200-28757-3

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Dominic Thorburn
Borderline – Sweeping a Mind Field.
‘Borders & Crossings’ IMPACT 8 International Printmaking Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, August, 2013

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Irene Enslé Bronner
The 'person without the person' in the early work of Paul Emmanuel. 

'De Arte', UNISA Press, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Volume 85, 2012, pp 42-58.
ISSN 0004-3389

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Pamela Allara
Diane Victor and Paul Emmanuel: Lost Men Lost Wor(l)ds.
'Gender and South African Art' in 'African Arts', MIT Press Journals, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Volume 45, No. 4, October 2012, pp 34-45.
ISSN 0001-9933

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Pamela Allara
Paul Emmanuel’s Transitions: The White South African Male in Process.

'NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art', Duke University Press, North Carolina, USA. Issue 28, November, 2011, pp 58-66.
ISSN: 1075-7163

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Michael Smith
FNB Joburg Art Fair Featured Artist Paul Emmanuel.
'ArtThrob', ArtThrob, Cape Town, South Africa, 2011

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Irene Enslé Bronner
Initimate Masculinities in the Work of Paul Emmanuel.
A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts of Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 2011
Document ID: 2108

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Robyn Sassen
Under Covers: South Africa’s Apartheid Army – an Incubator for Artists’ Books.
'The Blue Note Book: Journal for Artists' Books', CFPR, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, Volume 3, Number 1, October, 2008.
ISSN 1751-1712 (print) 1751-1720 (online)

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André Croucamp
Conversations on the Transience of Light.
'Transitions', Art Source South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008
ISBN 978-0-620-41945-1

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Aryan Kaganof
Interview with Paul Emmanuel.
'Kagablog', Online blog, Aryan Kaganof, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008

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Robyn Sassen
Of Circumcising and Circumscribing and Understanding Where I Fit In.
'Transitions', Art Source South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008
ISBN 978-0-620-41945-1

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David Paton
The Sound of a Book: Sound as Generator of Narrative in the Reception of Selected New Media Objects as Books.
'Image & Text', No. 13, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 2007
ISSN 1020 1497

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Robyn Sassen
Attention Seeking Images.
'IMPACT International Printmaking Conference', Tallinn, Estonia, 2006

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David Paton
Interview with Paul Emmanuel.
'Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface', David Paton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006
ISBN 0-620-37094-7

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Robyn Sassen
Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface.
'Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface', David Paton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006
ISBN 0-620-37094-7

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Julia Charlton
Drawing out of the Darkness: Contemplating after-image.
'After-image', Paul Emmanuel, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004
ISBN 0-620-32295-0

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Lisa Cohn
The Lost Men.
'ITCH', Volume 1 Issue 1, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, South Africa, 2003
ISBN 0-6203-1894-5

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