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Hogarth's Art of Animal Cruelty: Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda
Piers Beirne
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Description for Hogarth's Art of Animal Cruelty: Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda
Hardcover. 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'. Num Pages: 138 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AGB; AGN; JFFZ; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
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'.
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
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137447203
SKU
V9781137447203
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Ref
99-15
About Piers Beirne
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.
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