Stanley Abe

Stanley Abe

Associate Professor of Art and Art History

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley 1989

  • M.A., University of California at Berkeley 1984

  • B.A., University of California at Berkeley 1981

Overview

Stanley Abe has published on Chinese Buddhist art, contemporary Chinese art, Asian American art, Abstract Expressionism, and the collecting of Chinese sculpture. He is now writing a narrative account of how Chinese sculpture came into existence as a category of Fine Art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Expertise

Chinese art, theory & criticism
Contact Information

114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Smith Warehouse Bay 9, Room A289, Durham, NC 27708

Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766

Office hours:

Friday 2:00–3:00 and by appointment
 

(919) 684-2487

stanley.abe@duke.edu
Links

Abe, S. Ordinary Images. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Abe, S. A Freer Stela Reconsidered. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, 2002.

Abe, S., and J. Elsner. “Introduction: Some Stakes of Comparativism.” Comparativism in Art History, edited by J. Elsner, Routledge, 2017, pp. 1–15.

Abe, S. “Sculpture: A Comparative History.” Comparativism in Art History, edited by J. Elsner, Routledge, 2017, pp. 94–108.

Abe, S. “General Munthe’s Sculpture Collection.” Gifts, edited by Jorunn Haakestad, Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, 2012, pp. 42–47.

Abe, S. “The Modern Moment of Chinese Sculpture.” Exhibiting Asian Art: Issues and Perspectives, National Museum of Korea; Friends of National Museum of Korea, 2011, pp. 27–45.

Abe, S. “Rockefeller Home Decorating and Objects from China.” Collecting China: The World, China, and a Short History of Collecting, edited by Vimalin Rujivacharakul, University of Delaware Press, 2011, pp. 107–23.

Abe, S. “Locating World Art.” The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora, edited by Saloni Mathur, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011, pp. 130–45.

Abe, S. “Collecting Chinese Sculpture: Paris, New York, Boston.” Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia, edited by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009, pp. 432–42.

Merali, Shaheen, editor. “China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism.” Re-Imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2008, pp. 124–33.

Abe, S. “From Stone to Sculpture: The Alchemy of the Modern.” Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2008, pp. 7–16.

Abe, S. “Xu Bing de zhenshi de yishu 徐冰的真实的艺术 (The Genuine Art of Xu Bing).” Xu Bing – Yancao Jihua 徐冰 – 烟草计划 (Xu Bing: Tobacco Project), edited by 巫鸿 Wu Hong, Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin daxue chubanshe, 2006, pp. 106–114.

Pages

Abe, S. K. “Pulitzer foundation workshop.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 62, Dec. 2012, pp. 81–81. Manual, doi:10.1353/aaa.2012.0005. Full Text

Abe, S. K. “Absence and the image.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 62, Dec. 2012, pp. 102–03. Scopus, doi:10.1353/aaa.2012.0011. Full Text

Abe, S. “Review of Ning Qiang, Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family.” Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 64, 2005, pp. 454–56.

Abe, S. “Review of Marsha Weidner, ed., Cultural Intersections in Late Imperial Chinese Buddhism.” Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 61, May 2002, pp. 715–16.

Abe, S. “Review essay of Lukas Nickel, ed., Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries.” Aribus Asiae, vol. 62, 2002, pp. 293–99.

Abe, S. K. “Provenance, patronage, and desire: Northern Wei sculpture from Shaanxi province.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 31, Dec. 2001, pp. 1–30.

Abe, S. “Review of Stephen Little with Shawn Eichman, Taoism and the Arts of China.” Journal of Chinese Religions, vol. 29, 2001, pp. 332–34.

Stanley Abe, Shawn. “Tobacco Art: Xu Bing's Tobacco Project.” Duke University Libraries, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 2000, pp. 3–7.

Buddhist Sculpture In a New Light | at Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C..

Buddhist Sculpture In a New Light. Creator. (2002)

Abstract

An exhibition of twenty-two works from the storage of the Freer Gallery, co-curated with Jan Stuart; some of the works were previously considered the masterpieces of the collection but have been relegated to storage; many others have never been exhibited

Spring 2020

Chinese Buddhist Art (ARTHIST 378.01)
Smith Wrhs A266, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
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Special Topics (ARTHIST 590S.03)
Smith Wrhs A290, Th 04:40 PM-07:10 PM
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Chinese Buddhist Art (ARTHIST 778S.01)
Smith Wrhs A266, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
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Chinese Buddhist Art (VMS 378.01)
Smith Wrhs A266, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
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Spring 2019

Copies and Duplication (ARTHIST 724S.01)
Smith Wrhs A266, M 04:40 PM-07:10 PM
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Chinese Buddhist Art (ARTHIST 778S.01)
Smith Wrhs A290, Th 04:40 PM-07:10 PM
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Chinese Buddhist Art (VMS 378.01)
Smith Wrhs A290, Th 04:40 PM-07:10 PM
Synopsis
Chinese Buddhist Art (ARTHIST 378.01)
Smith Wrhs A290, Th 04:40 PM-07:10 PM
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Spring 2018

Copies and Duplication (ARTHIST 724S.01)
Smith Wrhs A290, M 11:45 AM-02:15 PM
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Fall 2017

Chinese Buddhist Art (ARTHIST 378.01)
Smith Wrhs A266, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
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Spring 2017

Topics in Art History (ARTHIST 790.01)
Smith Wrhs A290, W 10:05 AM-12:35 PM
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Fall 2016

Chinese Art 1900 to Present (ARTHIST 295.01)
East Duke 204A, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
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Spring 2015

First-Year Seminar (Top) (ARTHIST 89S.01)
East Duke 204A, M 08:30 AM-10:30 AM
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Chinese Buddhist Art (ARTHIST 378.01)
East Duke 108, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
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Fall 2014

First-Year Seminar (Top) (ARTHIST 89S.01)
East Duke 204A, Th 10:05 AM-12:05 PM
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Spring 2014

First-Year Seminar (Top) (ARTHIST 89S.01)
East Duke 204A, Tu 08:30 AM-10:30 AM
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Chinese Buddhist Art (ARTHIST 378.01)
East Duke 204A, MW 08:30 AM-09:45 AM
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