Arnold Hauser wrote the first Marxist survey of Western Art, entitled " The Social History of Art ".
Here, in the words of Arnold Hauser, a sociologist of art, we see " the ascent of the artist from the level of the petit bourgeois artisan to that of the free intellectual worker ."
Bal醶s was a moving force in the Sonntagskreis or Sunday Circle, the intellectual discussion group which he founded in the autumn of 1915 together with Lajos F黮ep, Arnold Hauser, Gy鰎gy Luk醕s and K醨oly ( Karl ) Mannheim.
The University of Leeds was the " alma mater " of Herbert Read, one of the leading international theorists of modern art from the mid-twentieth century, and also the teaching base for the Marxist art historian Arnold Hauser from 1951 to 1985.