About the Contributor(s): Haig Khatchadourian is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of twelve books in philosophy and two volumes of poetry. He is a member of the International Academy of Philosophy and of The Academy of Sciences in Armenia, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce, United Kingdom.

Music, Film, & Art presents 13 lively essays on current issues in aesthetics and philosophy of the arts, from classifying a work as good or poor to the difficulties contemporary audiences face in attempting to understand and appreciate the avant-garde. Offering fresh insights on music, painting, and film, as well as literature, dance, theater, and sculpture, this thought-provoking volume will be of considerable interest to the serious general reader and to students, critics, and aestheticians.