Stanley K. Abe
# Stanley K. Abe

Stanley K. Abe is an art historian with Duke University and a specialist in Chinese art and Buddhist art. He received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His book Ordinary images (2002) won the Freer Gallery/Smithsonian Institution: Shimada Prize.

## 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.
* "To avoid the inscrutable: Abstract Expressionism and the "Oriental Mode"." In Discrepant Abstraction, Ed. K. Mercer, MIT Press, 2006. pp. 52–73. ISBN 026263337X
