The archaeologist, the anthropologist, the ethnographer and the art historian - as well as the artist himself - are concerned in some way with the relation of art to the society which produced it.  This book treats the subject from many different points of view. Topics range from techniques of study, such as formal analysis, to the place of art in prehistoric societies and its role in present-day "primitive" cultures from Afirca to Oceania. Other topics include the reception of non-European art in Europe, the plights of the artist today in both advanced and developing societeis and the theorietical problesm of perception psychology, aesthetics adn philosophy. It is a wide-ranging book that will have a wide apeal.