Stanley K. Abe Explained

Stanley K. Abe is an art historian with Duke University and a specialist in Chinese art and Buddhist art.^[1] He received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.^[2] His book Ordinary images (2002) won the Freer Gallery/Smithsonian Institution: Shimada Prize.^[3] Additionally, he served as editor in chief of Archives of Asian Art from 2011 to 2018.^[4]

Selected publications

• Book: Art and Practice in a Fifth-century Chinese Buddhist Cave Temple. 1990. Stanley K. Abe. Ars Orientalis. 20. Internet Archive. registration.
• Ordinary images. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002.
• A Freer stela reconsidered. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, 2002.^[5]
• "To avoid the inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." In Discrepant Abstraction, Ed. K. Mercer, MIT Press, 2006. pp. 52–73.
• Imagining Sculpture. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2022. ISBN 9783777437583^[6]

External links

• Stanley Abe talking on "Sculpture in the Golden Age of East Asian Art Collecting"

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Stanley Abe: “The Modern Moment of Chinese Sculpture” . 2024-03-15 . IFA Contemporary . en-US.
2. https://aahvs.duke.edu/people/profile/stanley-abe Stanley Abe.
3. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo3614235.html Ordinary Images, Stanley K. Abe.
4. Web site: Stanley Abe . 2024-03-15 . University of Chicago Press . en.
5. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32938962 A Freer stela reconsidered / Stanley K. Abe.
6. Web site: Scholars@Duke publication: Imagining Sculpture . 2024-03-15 . scholars.duke.edu.