Hogarth’s Art of Animal Cruelty

P. Beirne

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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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'.

ISBN-13
9781137447203
ISBN-10
1137447206
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2014
Publication date
2014-12-17
Pages
128
Dimensions
148x219x14
Weight
320