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  Stanley Abe, Affiliated Faculty
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  Associate Professor of Art History

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Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/womstud/~sabe

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • Arthist 170.01, Chinese buddhist art Synopsis
    East duke 204a, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • Arthist 272s.01, Topics chinese art Synopsis
    East duke 204a, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
Education:

  • PhD University of California, Berkeley 1989

Specialties:

Chinese Art,Theory & Criticism
Film Studies
Research Interests: Chinese Art, Archaeology, Chinese Film, Critical Theory

Stanley Abe received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His field of research is Chinese Buddhist art. He is now developing a critical study of the construction of a history of Buddhist art in China, Japan, Europe, and the United States during the 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 and an international art market.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. "Collecting Chinese Sculpture: Paris, New York, Boston." Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia  (2009): 432-442.
  2. "China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism." Re-Imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation  (2008): 124-133.
  3. "From Stone to Sculpture: The Alchemy of the Modern." Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University  (2008): 7–16.
  4. "To Avoid the Inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." Discrepant Abstraction  (2006): 52-73.
  5. "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)  (2006): 106–114.
  6. "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  (2005): 109-114.
  7.  Ordinary Images.  University of Chicago Press, 2002.
  8.  A Freer Stela Reconsidered.  Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, 2002.
  9.  "Review essay of Lukas Nickel, ed., Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries". Aribus Asiae 62:2 (2002): 293–99.
  10. "Provenance, Patronage, and Desire: Northern Wei Sculpture from Shaanxi Province." Ars Orientalis 31 (2001): 1–30.
  11. "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  (2000): 227–50.
  12. "Inside the Wonder House: Buddhist Art and the West." Curators of the Buddha  (1995).