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

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'.

Author: P. Beirne
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 12/17/2014
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781137447203

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.