Hogarth's Art of Animal Cruelty: Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda

by P. Beirne

Overview

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'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137447203
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/17/2014
Edition description:	2015
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Piers Beirne is Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Inventing Criminology (1993) and Confronting Animal Abuse (2009) and the recipient of several awards and fellowships in England, Ireland and the United States. He is the founding co-editor of the journal Theoretical Criminology.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Seeing Hogarth's Animal Images 3. Hogarth's Four Stages of Cruelty 4. After Hogarth