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
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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... ... CiteBefore Sculpture
Chapter · 2020 CiteIntroduction: 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. ... CiteRecent Artistic Works
Buddhist Sculpture In a New Light
Exhibit April 14, 2002View All Artistic Works
Education, Training & Certifications
University of California, Berkeley ·
1989
Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley ·
1984
M.A.
University of California, Berkeley ·
1981
B.A.