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Stanley Abe

Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766
114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Smith Warehouse Bay 9, Room A289, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Monday 1:00-2:00pm and by appointment  

Overview


Stanley Abe has published on Chinese Buddhist art, contemporary Chinese art, Asian American art, Abstract Expressionism, and the collecting of Chinese sculpture. His most recent book is Imagining Sculpture, an experimental narrative account of how Chinese sculpture came into existence as a category of Fine Art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Art and Art History · 2001 - Present Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


Imagining Sculpture

Book · 2022 There was no Sculpture in China. Imagining Sculpture is the story of this something that did not exist. Imagining Sculpture is a series of short vignettes, historical and fictional... ... Cite

Before Sculpture

Chapter · 2020 Cite

Introduction: Some Stakes of Comparativism

Chapter · 2017 Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the discipline. ... Cite
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Recent Artistic Works



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Education, Training & Certifications


University of California, Berkeley · 1989 Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley · 1984 M.A.
University of California, Berkeley · 1981 B.A.