Stanley K. Abe
Stanley Abe, Associate Professor
Stanley AbeSpecialization:
Chinese Art
Theory & Criticism
Research Interests:
Stanley Abe has published on Chinese Buddhist art, contemporary Chinese art, Asian American art, Abstract Expressionism, and the construction of art historical knowledge. He is writing a critical study of how Chinese sculpture became a category of Fine Art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Education:
* PhD University of California, Berkeley 1989
Contact Info:
Office Location: 118 East Duke Building
Office Phone: (919) 684-2487
Email Address: stanley.abe@duke.edu
Web Page:
Typical Courses Taught:
* Arthist 171, Chinese art 1900 to present Synopsis
* Arthist 170, Chinese buddhist art Synopsis
* Fvd 103, Contemporary documentary films Synopsis
* Visualst 173, Chinese visual culture Synopsis
* Arthist 272s, Topics chinese art Synopsis
Books
1. Ordinary Images. University of Chicago Press, (2002).
2. A Freer Stela Reconsidered. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, (2002).
Articles Published
1. "Rockefeller Home Decorating and Objects from China." Collecting China: The World, China, and a Short History of Collecting. Edited by Vimalin Rujivacharakul. (2011): 107–23.
2. "Collecting Chinese Sculpture: Paris, New York, Boston." Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Edited by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. (2009): 432-442.
3. "China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism." Re-Imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation. Edited by Shaheen Merali. (2008): 124-133.
4. "From Stone to Sculpture: The Alchemy of the Modern." Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University (2008): 7–16.
5. "To Avoid the Inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." Discrepant Abstraction. Edited by Kobena Mercer. (2006): 52-73.
6. "Xu Bing de zhenshi de yishu 徐冰的真实的艺术 (The Genuine Art of Xu Bing)." Xu Bing -- Yancao jihua 徐冰 -- 烟草计划 (Xu Bing: Tobacco Project). Edited by Wu Hong 巫鸿. (2006): 106–114.
7. "Why Asia Now? Contemporary Asian Art and the Politics of Multiculturalism." 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): 109-114.
8. "Provenance, Patronage, and Desire: Northern Wei Sculpture from Shaanxi Province." Ars Orientalis vol. 31 (2001): 1–30.
9. "Tobacco Art: Xu Bing's Tobacco Project." Duke University Libraries vol. 14 no. 1 (Fall, 2000): 3–7.
10. "Bei Liang shita yu Mogao ku zaoqi san ku de niandai wenti (Northern Liang stone pillars and the dating of the earliest Mogao caves." Dunhuang xue guoji yantaohui wenji , Shiku kaogu juan (Collected works of the 1994 International Conference on Dunhuang studies, Cave temple archaeology volume). Edited by Dunhuang yanjiuyuan (Dunhuang research academy). (2000): 159–65. ((translated into Chinese by Tai Jianqun))
11. "Nanbokucho no dokyo to zokei (Daoist sculpture of the Northern-Southern Dynasties period)." Sekai bijutsu daizenshu, Toyo hen (New History of World Art: Asia) vol. 3 (2000): 362–68. (translated into Japanese by Seriu Haruna)
12. "Shaanxi sheng de Beiwei diaoke: Laiyuan, zanzhu, yuanwang (Northern Wei Sculpture from Shaanxi Province: Provenance, Patronage, Desire)." Between Han and Tang: Religious Art and Archaeology in a Transformative Period. Edited by Wu Hung. (2000): 461–88. (translated into Chinese by Yuan Hong)
13. "Reading the Sky." Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness. Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh. (2000): 53–79.
14. "No Questions, No Answers: China and A Book from the Sky." Modern Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field. Edited by Rey Chow. (2000): 227–50.
15. "Chugoku o miseru (Exhibiting China)." The Present, and the Discipline of Art History in Japan. Edited by Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties. (1999): 192–206. ((translated into Japanese by Okada Ken))
16. "Inside the Wonder House: Buddhist Art and the West." Curators of the Buddha. Edited by Donald Lopez. (1995).
Articles Accepted
1. "Locating World Art." The Migrant’s Time: Art, Dispersal, and Difference. Edited by Saloni Mathur. (2011).
Book Reviews
1. "The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China." Journal of Asian Studies vol. 70 no. 1 (February, 2011): 196–198.
2. "Review of Ning Qiang, Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family." Journal of Asian Studies vol. 64 no. 2 (2005): 454-56.
3. "Review of Marsha Weidner, ed., Cultural Intersections in Late Imperial Chinese Buddhism." Journal of Asian Studies vol. 61 no. 2 (May, 2002): 715-16.
4. "Review essay of Lukas Nickel, ed., Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries." Aribus Asiae vol. 62 no. 2 (2002): 293–99.
5. "Review of Stephen Little with Shawn Eichman, Taoism and the Arts of China." Journal of Chinese Religions vol. 29 (2001): 332-34.
Selected Invited Lectures
1. Order and Things: The Transformation of Chinese Objects into Sculpture, March 16, 2011, Cleveland Museum of Art
2. Duplicates in Chinese Stone Sculpture, November 9, 2010, New Research on Buddhist Sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
3. The Fuxian Style Once More, September 22, 2010, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
4. Order and Things: Art History and Chinese Sculpture, September 21, 2010, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London [Announcement]
5. A Modern Taste for Chinese and Japanese Art, July 10, 2010, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, Nation, International Conference "Forgotten Japonisme: The Taste for Japanese Art in Britain and the USA, 1920s–1950s," Victoria and Albert Museum, London
6. Déjà Vu Once Again: Old Collections and New Discoveries from Shaanxi Province, July 6, 2010, Institute of East Asian Art History, Universität Heidelberg
7. Locating World Art, July 5, 2010, Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Universität Heidelberg
8. Déjà Vu All Over Again: Old Collections and New Discoveries from Shaanxi, February 10, 2010, University of Chicago
9. Circa 1909: Moving Japanese and Chinese Sculpture to the United States, October 30, 2009, "Circa 1909" Symposium, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln
10. China and Japan in Early Rockefeller Collecting, September 18, 2009, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, Nation, University of the Arts, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
11. "Locating World Art", May 24, 2008, in the conference "(World) Art? Art History and Global Practice," Northwestern University
12. Figuring China: Sculpture, Authenticity, and the Native, December 06, 2007, Leiden University [scholarship.php]
Stanley AbeSpecialization:
Chinese Art
Theory & Criticism
Research Interests:
Stanley Abe has published on Chinese Buddhist art, contemporary Chinese art, Asian American art, Abstract Expressionism, and the construction of art historical knowledge. He is writing a critical study of how Chinese sculpture became a category of Fine Art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Education:
* PhD University of California, Berkeley 1989
Contact Info:
Office Location: 118 East Duke Building
Office Phone: (919) 684-2487
Email Address: stanley.abe@duke.edu
Web Page:
Typical Courses Taught:
* Arthist 171, Chinese art 1900 to present Synopsis
* Arthist 170, Chinese buddhist art Synopsis
* Fvd 103, Contemporary documentary films Synopsis
* Visualst 173, Chinese visual culture Synopsis
* Arthist 272s, Topics chinese art Synopsis
Books
1. Ordinary Images. University of Chicago Press, (2002).
2. A Freer Stela Reconsidered. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, (2002).
Articles Published
1. "Rockefeller Home Decorating and Objects from China." Collecting China: The World, China, and a Short History of Collecting. Edited by Vimalin Rujivacharakul. (2011): 107–23.
2. "Collecting Chinese Sculpture: Paris, New York, Boston." Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Edited by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. (2009): 432-442.
3. "China, The Buddha, and Modern Aestheticism." Re-Imagining Asia: A Thousand Years of Separation. Edited by Shaheen Merali. (2008): 124-133.
4. "From Stone to Sculpture: The Alchemy of the Modern." Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University (2008): 7–16.
5. "To Avoid the Inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." Discrepant Abstraction. Edited by Kobena Mercer. (2006): 52-73.
6. "Xu Bing de zhenshi de yishu 徐冰的真实的艺术 (The Genuine Art of Xu Bing)." Xu Bing -- Yancao jihua 徐冰 -- 烟草计划 (Xu Bing: Tobacco Project). Edited by Wu Hong 巫鸿. (2006): 106–114.
7. "Why Asia Now? Contemporary Asian Art and the Politics of Multiculturalism." 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): 109-114.
8. "Provenance, Patronage, and Desire: Northern Wei Sculpture from Shaanxi Province." Ars Orientalis vol. 31 (2001): 1–30.
9. "Tobacco Art: Xu Bing's Tobacco Project." Duke University Libraries vol. 14 no. 1 (Fall, 2000): 3–7.
10. "Bei Liang shita yu Mogao ku zaoqi san ku de niandai wenti (Northern Liang stone pillars and the dating of the earliest Mogao caves." Dunhuang xue guoji yantaohui wenji , Shiku kaogu juan (Collected works of the 1994 International Conference on Dunhuang studies, Cave temple archaeology volume). Edited by Dunhuang yanjiuyuan (Dunhuang research academy). (2000): 159–65. ((translated into Chinese by Tai Jianqun))
11. "Nanbokucho no dokyo to zokei (Daoist sculpture of the Northern-Southern Dynasties period)." Sekai bijutsu daizenshu, Toyo hen (New History of World Art: Asia) vol. 3 (2000): 362–68. (translated into Japanese by Seriu Haruna)
12. "Shaanxi sheng de Beiwei diaoke: Laiyuan, zanzhu, yuanwang (Northern Wei Sculpture from Shaanxi Province: Provenance, Patronage, Desire)." Between Han and Tang: Religious Art and Archaeology in a Transformative Period. Edited by Wu Hung. (2000): 461–88. (translated into Chinese by Yuan Hong)
13. "Reading the Sky." Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness. Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh. (2000): 53–79.
14. "No Questions, No Answers: China and A Book from the Sky." Modern Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field. Edited by Rey Chow. (2000): 227–50.
15. "Chugoku o miseru (Exhibiting China)." The Present, and the Discipline of Art History in Japan. Edited by Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties. (1999): 192–206. ((translated into Japanese by Okada Ken))
16. "Inside the Wonder House: Buddhist Art and the West." Curators of the Buddha. Edited by Donald Lopez. (1995).
Articles Accepted
1. "Locating World Art." The Migrant’s Time: Art, Dispersal, and Difference. Edited by Saloni Mathur. (2011).
Book Reviews
1. "The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China." Journal of Asian Studies vol. 70 no. 1 (February, 2011): 196–198.
2. "Review of Ning Qiang, Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family." Journal of Asian Studies vol. 64 no. 2 (2005): 454-56.
3. "Review of Marsha Weidner, ed., Cultural Intersections in Late Imperial Chinese Buddhism." Journal of Asian Studies vol. 61 no. 2 (May, 2002): 715-16.
4. "Review essay of Lukas Nickel, ed., Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries." Aribus Asiae vol. 62 no. 2 (2002): 293–99.
5. "Review of Stephen Little with Shawn Eichman, Taoism and the Arts of China." Journal of Chinese Religions vol. 29 (2001): 332-34.
Selected Invited Lectures
1. Order and Things: The Transformation of Chinese Objects into Sculpture, March 16, 2011, Cleveland Museum of Art
2. Duplicates in Chinese Stone Sculpture, November 9, 2010, New Research on Buddhist Sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
3. The Fuxian Style Once More, September 22, 2010, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
4. Order and Things: Art History and Chinese Sculpture, September 21, 2010, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London [Announcement]
5. A Modern Taste for Chinese and Japanese Art, July 10, 2010, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, Nation, International Conference "Forgotten Japonisme: The Taste for Japanese Art in Britain and the USA, 1920s–1950s," Victoria and Albert Museum, London
6. Déjà Vu Once Again: Old Collections and New Discoveries from Shaanxi Province, July 6, 2010, Institute of East Asian Art History, Universität Heidelberg
7. Locating World Art, July 5, 2010, Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Universität Heidelberg
8. Déjà Vu All Over Again: Old Collections and New Discoveries from Shaanxi, February 10, 2010, University of Chicago
9. Circa 1909: Moving Japanese and Chinese Sculpture to the United States, October 30, 2009, "Circa 1909" Symposium, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln
10. China and Japan in Early Rockefeller Collecting, September 18, 2009, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, Nation, University of the Arts, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
11. "Locating World Art", May 24, 2008, in the conference "(World) Art? Art History and Global Practice," Northwestern University
12. Figuring China: Sculpture, Authenticity, and the Native, December 06, 2007, Leiden University [scholarship.php]
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