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Hogarth’s Art of Animal Cruelty

Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda
By:P. Beirne
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137447203
eText ISBN:9781137447210
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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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'.