Hogarth’s Art of Animal Cruelty Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda
Description
This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirne offers an important assessment of how Hogarth's various audiences reacted to his gruesome images and ultimately what was meant by 'cruelty'.
Keywords
Social ScienceCriminologyArtSociologyCriticism & TheoryHistoryScienceEthicsTechniquesPhilosophy & Social Aspects
2014Book
Author(s)P. Beirne
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137447203
LanguageEnglish
