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Art History Research Resources: ART255: Bodies & Objects

Welcome!

This resource guide should assist with the paper component of ART255: Bodies & Objects.  Below you will find separate boxes for the different categories covered in your course (psychology, medicine, art, society, and religion) and how they relate and interact with the concept of "the body."  You will find call number areas, potential databases, specific book titles related to each topic, and other information.  

The tabs across the top of the page will lead to additional art history resources that you may find to be useful, as well as information on how to cite the sources you find.

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Resouces for the Body and Psychology

Call Numbers

The following call number ranges relate to the body as it interacts with psychology:

  • BF150-172: Psychology, mind and body
  • BF697.5 B63: Body image
  • R726.5: Medicine and disease in relation to psychology

Subject Headings

Databases

Journals

Resources on the Body in Society, Manners & Customs

Call Numbers

The following call number ranges relate to the body and social constructs: customs, grooming, costumes, daily life and rituals:

  • GN298: Social aspects of the human body
  • GN419: Clothing and adornment, ornaments, jewelry
  • GN419.3: Tattooing
  • GT495-499: Human body and its parts, personal beauty
  • GT500-2370: Costumes, dress and fashion
  • GT2400-3390.5: Customs related to private life (children, marriage, funerals...)
  • GT3400-5090: Customs related to social life (festivals, holidays, ceremonies...)
  • HM636: Sociology and the human body
  • HQ1075: The gendered body

Subject Headings

Databases

Journals

Resources for the Physical Body & Medicine

Call Numbers

The following call number ranges relate to the physical body and the body in health and medicine:

  • GN62.8-265: Human variation (growth, physical forms, skeleton...)
  • GN269-279: Race (general)
  • GN280.7: Man as an animal
  • GN281-289: Human evolution
  • GN296-296.5: Medical anthropology
  • GN700-890: Prehistoric archaeology
  • R726.5: Medicine and disease in relation to psychology
  • RC49: Mind-body relationship, psychosomatic illness

Subject Headings

Databases

Resources for the Body and Religion

Call Numbers

The following call number ranges relate to religious perspectives on the body:

  • BL604 B64: Religion, human body
  • BQ4570 B63: Human body in Buddhism
  • BT700-749: Humanity, doctrinal anthropology (Christian)

Subject Headings

Reference Sources

Encyclopedia of Religion

Databases

Resources for the Body in Art

Call Numbers

The following call number ranges relate to the body as a subject in art, and in various media:

  • HQ1389: Women in art
  • N7570-7574.5: Techniques and histories of depicting the human body in art
  • N7625: Representations of humans/life cycles in art
  • N7626: Portraits
  • NB1293-1310: Portrait sculpture
  • ND1290-1293: Human figure in painting
  • TR817.5-Dance photography

Subject Headings

Reference Sources

Databases

Journals