Hogarth's Art of Animal Cruelty [electronic resource] : Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda /
Beirne, P.author.
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'.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'.
Seeing Hogarth's animal images -- Hogarth's Four Stages of Cruelty: '[T]o reform some reigning vices peculiar to the lower class of people' -- After Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Critical criminology.
Arts.
Sociology.
Criminology.
Fine arts.
Bioethics.
Critical Criminology.
Arts.
Sociology, general.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Fine Arts.
Bioethics.