Stanley Abe
- Associate Professor
- Literature
- 118 East Duke Building
- Campus Box 90764
- Phone: (919) 684-2487
- Fax: (919) 684-4398
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Research Description
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. 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, modernism, and the international art market.
