American Arts Quarterly
Summer 2011

Essays
The Noble Death in Western Visual Art [1]
Part I
by Donald Kuspit
The Problems of Apostasy: Architecture in the Modern Age [2]
by Peter Kellow
On Historical Art: Melville and the Poetry of the Civil War [3]
by Frederick Turner
Anatomy/Academy: Philadelphia Nexus of Art and Science [4]
by James Lancel McElhinney
William Bouguereau: The Last History Painter [5]
by James F. Cooper
Book Reviews
Colors: Passages through Art, Asia and Nature [6]
Review by Gail Leggio
Michelangelo: A Life on Paper [7]
Review by Gail Leggio
Exhibitions
Poetry
View from the Patio [13]
by John Ridland
Trimming Out, 1911 [14]
by Maryann Corbett
Daylight, 2 a.m. [15]
by Richard Sime