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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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'. Zusammenfassung 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'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Seeing Hogarth's Animal Images 3. Hogarth's Four Stages of Cruelty 4. After Hogarth

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: P Beirne, P. Beirne, Piers Beirne
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2014
• EAN: 9781137447203
• ISBN: 978-1-137-44720-3
• No. of pages: 138
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; C, Sociology, Fine Arts, The arts: general issues, Criminology, Arts, Bioethics, Fine Art, Sociology, general, Crime & criminology, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Critical criminology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Fine arts: art forms