Research Interests for Stanley Abe

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.

Keywords:

Collectors and collecting

Representative Publications

1. Abe, S, Ordinary Images (2002), University of Chicago Press
2. Abe, S, A Freer Stela Reconsidered (2002), Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper
3. The Modern Moment of Chinese Sculpture, Misul Charyo 美術資料 (Fine Art Materials), vol. 82 (December, 2012), pp. 63-82 [author's comments]
4. Abe, S, Rockefeller Home Decorating and Objects from China, in Collecting China: The World, China, and a Short History of Collecting, edited by Rujivacharakul, V (2011), pp. 107–23-107–23, University of Delaware Press
5. Abe, S, Locating World Art, in The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora, edited by Mathur, S (2011), pp. 130-45, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
6. China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism, in Re-Imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation, edited by Merali, S (2008), pp. 124-133, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
7. Abe, S, To Avoid the Inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode", in Discrepant Abstraction, edited by Mercer, K (2006), pp. 52-73, MIT Press