VMPEA: Stanley Abe
Guest: Stanley Abe, Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Department of Art, Art History, & Visual Studies, Duke University
"Imagining Sculpture"
About VMPEA: The VMPEA workshop is oriented toward the study of material or visual objects from East Asia. It explores the possible use of recent theories of art, history, and material and visual culture in the study of East Asia. Presentations of studies of objects, sites, visual materials, and built environments cover a variety of historical periods and geographic locations within East Asia. Flexible in how the methodologies are defined, this workshop does not limit itself to art history, but also includes archeology, anthropology, and a wide range of fields of visual studies, such as film, museum studies, and visual culture etc. The workshop is about half student and faculty presentations and about half outside speakers.