Stanley Abe, Associate Professor and Interim Director of FVD

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Teaching (Fall 2008):

  • VISUALST 172.01, HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM Synopsis
    East Duke 204A, W 01:15 PM-03:45 PM
  • VISUALST 173.01, CHINESE VISUAL CULTURE Synopsis
    East Duke 204A, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Education:

PhDUniversity of California, Berkeley1989
Specialties:

Film Studies
Areas of Interest:

Chinese Art
Asian Film

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism, in Re-Imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation, edited by Shaheen Merali (2008), pp. 124-133, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin .
  2. From Stone to Sculpture: The Alchemy of the Modern, in Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University (2008), pp. 7–16, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University .
  3. To Avoid the Inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode", in Discrepant Abstraction, edited by Kobena Mercer (2006), pp. 52-73, MIT Press .
  4. Xu Bing de zhenshi de yishu 徐冰的真实的艺术 (The Genuine Art of Xu Bing), in Xu Bing -- Yancao jihua 徐冰 -- 烟草计划 (Xu Bing: Tobacco Project), edited by Wu Hong 巫鸿 (2006), pp. 106–114, Beijing: Zhongguo Renmin daxue chubanshe .
  5. Why Asia Now? Contemporary Asian Art and the Politics of Multiculturalism, in 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), pp. 109-114, Duke University Press .
  6. Ordinary Images (2002), University of Chicago Press .
  7. A Freer Stela Reconsidered (2002), Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper .
  8. Review essay of Lukas Nickel, ed., Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries, Aribus Asiae, vol. 62 no. 2 (2002), pp. 293–99 .
  9. Nanbokucho no dokyo to zokei (Daoist sculpture of the Northern-Southern Dynasties period), in Sekai bijutsu daizenshu, Toyo hen (New History of World Art: Asia), vol. 3 (2000), pp. 362–68, Tokyo: Shogakkan (translated into Japanese by Seriu Haruna.) .
  10. No Questions, No Answers: China and A Book from the Sky, in Modern Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field, edited by Rey Chow (2000), pp. 227–50, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press .
  11. Chugoku o miseru (Exhibiting China), in The Present, and the Discipline of Art History in Japan, edited by Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties (1999), pp. 192–206, Tokyo: Heibonsha ((translated into Japanese by Okada Ken).) .
  12. Inside the Wonder House: Buddhist Art and the West, in Curators of the Buddha, edited by Donald Lopez (1995), University of Chicago, .
Selected Invited Lectures

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

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2007/07-2008/06.      
  • Franklin Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2007/06-2007/06.      
  • Trent Foundation, 2007/03-2007/03.      
  • Rockefeller Archive Center Director's Discretionary Grant, 2006/08-2006/12.      
  • Trent Foundation, 2005/07-2006/06.