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William Hogarth, one of England's foremost artists, made extensive use of animal images - as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Hogarth's Art of Animal Cruelty: Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda offers an important examination of Hogarth's intentions in the Four Stages of Cruelty (1751), a series of four prints generally neglected by art historians and wrongly identified by legal historians and other scholars as a milestone in the development of animal rights. In this book, Beirne analyses how Hogarth's various audiences would have reacted to his gruesome images, and ultimately what was meant by 'cruelty'.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Hogarth's Art of Animal Cruelty
• Subtitle: Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda
• Author: Piers Beirne
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9781137447203
• ISBN: 1137447206
• ID: 09083543
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 320 g
• Dimensions: 148 × 219 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. December 2014

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