• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1989

Research Interests:  

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.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

Books

•  Ordinary Images.  University of Chicago Press, 2002 .
•  A Freer Stela Reconsidered.  Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, 2002 .

•  Review essay of Lukas Nickel, ed., Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries. Aribus Asiae 62:2 (2002): 293–99.