Music Film and Art

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. Haig Khatchadourian is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. He received his PhD in philosophy from Duke University and has been awarded several prizes for poetry and literary essays. In 1973 he received the Outstanding Educator of America Award.