Stanley K. Abe

Stanley K. Abe is an American art historian with Duke University and a specialist in Chinese art and Buddhist art. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. His book Ordinary Images won the Freer Gallery/Smithsonian Institution: Shimada Prize. Additionally, he served as editor in chief of Archives of Asian Art from 2011 to 2018.

Selected publications

Ordinary images. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002. A Freer stela reconsidered. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, 2002. "To avoid the inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." In Discrepant Abstraction, Ed. K. Mercer, MIT Press, 2006. pp. 52–73. Imagining Sculpture. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2022.