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Stanley Abe

Stanley Abe

Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
stanley.abe@duke.edu
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766
114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Smith Warehouse Bay 9, Room A289, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected 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

Sculpture: A Comparative History

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

Pulitzer foundation workshop

Journal Article Archives of Asian Art · December 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Absence and the image

Journal Article Archives of Asian Art · December 1, 2012 Full text Cite

The Modern Moment of Chinese Sculpture

Chapter · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

Locating World Art

Chapter · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism

Chapter · 2008 Featured Publication Cite

Ordinary Images

Book · 2002 Featured Publication Cite

A Freer Stela Reconsidered

Book · 2002 Featured Publication Cite

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

Sculpture: A Comparative History

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

Pulitzer foundation workshop

Journal Article Archives of Asian Art · December 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Absence and the image

Journal Article Archives of Asian Art · December 1, 2012 Full text Cite

The Modern Moment of Chinese Sculpture

Chapter · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

Locating World Art

Chapter · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism

Chapter · 2008 Featured Publication Cite

Ordinary Images

Book · 2002 Featured Publication Cite

A Freer Stela Reconsidered

Book · 2002 Featured Publication Cite

Review of Stephen Little with Shawn Eichman, Taoism and the Arts of China

Journal Article Journal of Chinese Religions · 2001 Cite

Tobacco Art: Xu Bing's Tobacco Project

Journal Article Duke University Libraries · October 2000 Cite

Reading the Sky

Chapter · 2000 Cite