Stanley K. Abe

Stanley K. Abe is an American art historian with Duke University and a specialist in Chinese art and Buddhist art.^[1] He received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.^[2] His book Ordinary Images (2002) won the Freer Gallery/Smithsonian Institution: Shimada Prize.^[3] Additionally, he served as editor in chief of Archives of Asian Art from 2011 to 2018.^[4]

Stanley K. Abe
Nationality	American
Occupation	Art historian
Academic background
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BA, MA, PhD)

Selected publications

• Stanley K. Abe (1990). Art and Practice in a Fifth-century Chinese Buddhist Cave Temple. Ars Orientalis. Vol. 20 – via Internet Archive.
• Ordinary images. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002. ISBN 9780226000442
• A Freer stela reconsidered. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Occasional Paper, 2002.^[5]
• "To avoid the inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." In Discrepant Abstraction, Ed. K. Mercer, MIT Press, 2006. pp. 52–73. ISBN 026263337X
• Imagining Sculpture. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2022. ISBN 9783777437583^[6]