Stanley K. Abe

Stanley K. Abe is an American art historian with Duke University and a specialist in Chinese art and Buddhist art. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. His book Ordinary Images (2002) won the Freer Gallery/Smithsonian Institution: Shimada Prize. Additionally, he served as editor in chief of Archives of Asian Art from 2011 to 2018.

Selected publications

• Ordinary images. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002.
• A Freer stela reconsidered. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, 2002.
• "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.

References

External links

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