Stanley K. Abe
Stanley K. Abe | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BA, MA, PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Art historian, professor |
| Employer | Duke University |
| Known for | Expertise in Chinese art and Buddhist art; editor-in-chief of Archives of Asian Art (2011–2018) |
Stanley K. Abe is a prominent American art historian based at Duke University, with a focus on Chinese art and Buddhist art. He completed his BA, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of California at Berkeley. His 2002 publication, Ordinary Images, was honored with the Freer Gallery/Smithsonian Institution Shimada Prize. Between 2011 and 2018, Abe held the position of editor-in-chief for Archives of Asian Art.
Selected publications
- Ordinary Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- A Freer stela reconsidered. Occasional Paper, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2002.
- "To avoid the inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." In Discrepant Abstraction, edited by K. Mercer, MIT Press, 2006, pp. 52–73.
- Imagining Sculpture. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2022.