The Social History of Art (4 Volume Set)
Unrivalled in its scope and ambition, Arnold Hauser's classic study can be placed alongside the writings of Schapiro, Wölfflin, and Panofsky as a critical contribution to the development of the history of art as discipline.–Alan Wallach, College of William and MaryThis is an exciting, an irritating, a scholarly and an absolutely indispensable book.–Art News and ReviewsThe work is a thoroughly significant and eminently debatable contribution to art history and intellectual history...Every library serving students in the arts and the history of art should have a copy of Hauser's history.–Choice, June 2000Hauser's work repays reading because it was and remains the only comprehensive scholarly synthesis of the history of art from the perspective of historical materialism.–Whitney Davies