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Chinese Art,Theory & Criticism

Stanley Abe has published on Chinese Buddhist art, contemporary Chinese art, Asian American art, Abstract Expressionism, and the construction of art historical knowledge. He is writing a critical study of how Chinese sculpture became a category of fine art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study pays special attention to the collecting, sale, and movement of objects; museum practices, aesthetic theory, and forms of knowledge organized by the disciplines of art history, ethnography, and religious studies in the context of colonialism, modernism, and the international art market.

Education:

• PhD University of California, Berkeley 1989

Typical Courses Taught:

• Visualst 172, History of the museum Synopsis

• Visualst 173, Chinese visual culture Synopsis

1. "China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism." Re-Imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation. Edited by Shaheen Merali.  (2008): 124-133.
2. "From Stone to Sculpture: The Alchemy of the Modern." Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University  (2008): 7–16.
3. "To Avoid the Inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." Discrepant Abstraction. Edited by Kobena Mercer.  (2006): 52-73.
4. "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 Wu Hong 巫鸿.  (2006): 106–114.
5. "Why Asia Now? Contemporary Asian Art and the Politics of Multiculturalism." Shades of Black: Assembling the 80s, A transatlantic dialogue on Afro-Asian arts in post-war Britain. Edited by David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce.  (2005): 109-114.
6.  Ordinary Images. University of Chicago Press, (2002).
7.  A Freer Stela Reconsidered. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, (2002).
8. "Review essay of Lukas Nickel, ed., Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries." Aribus Asiae  vol. 62 no. 2 (2002): 293–99.
9. "Nanbokucho no dokyo to zokei (Daoist sculpture of the Northern-Southern Dynasties period)." Sekai bijutsu daizenshu, Toyo hen (New History of World Art: Asia)  vol. 3 (2000): 362–68. (translated into Japanese by Seriu Haruna)
10. "No Questions, No Answers: China and A Book from the Sky." Modern Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field. Edited by Rey Chow.  (2000): 227–50.
11. "Chugoku o miseru (Exhibiting China)." The Present, and the Discipline of Art History in Japan. Edited by Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties.  (1999): 192–206. ((translated into Japanese by Okada Ken))
12. "Inside the Wonder House: Buddhist Art and the West." Curators of the Buddha. Edited by Donald Lopez.  (1995).

1. Buddhist Sculpture In a New Light, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2002 - September 7, 2003

Selected Invited Lectures

1. Figuring China: Sculpture, Authenticity, and the Native, December 06, 2007, Leiden University [scholarship.php]