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Human figure in art

Here are entered works on the techniques of depicting the human body in art. Works on the representation of human beings in art are entered under Human beings in art.

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• Art
• Composition (Art)
• Figurative art

• Anatomy, Artistic
• Figure drawing
• Figure painting

• Human figure in art -- Exhibitions
• Figure sculpture
• Nude in art

• Human body in art

• Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's "Four Books on Human Proportion": Renaissance Proportion Theory (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, trans. by James Hutson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2018), by Ari Larissa Heinrich (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• How to Pose the Model (third edition, second printing; San Francisco: Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., 1960), by William Mortensen and George Dunham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alberti Dureri Clarissimi Pictoris et Geometrae de Symetria Partium in Rectis Formis Huanorum Corporum, Libri in Latinum Conuersi (in Latin; Nuremberg: In aedib. viduae Durerianae, 1532), by Albrecht Dürer (page images at Vatican Digital Library)

• Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by Kenneth D. Keele and Jane Roberts (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• An Account of Medieval Figure-Sculpture in England (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1912), by Edward S. Prior and Arthur Gardner
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), by Alisa LaGamma (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• La Déesse Nue Babylonienne: Étude d'Iconographie Comparée (in French; Paris: P. Geuthner, 1914), by G. Contenau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Artistic Anatomy (revised and enlarged edition; Los Angeles: Borden Pub. Co., c1939), by Walter Farrington Moses, contrib. by Monte Salvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artistic Anatomy of the Human Figure (16th edition; London: Winsor and Newton, ca. 1853), by Henry Warren
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Duval's Artistic Anatomy: Completely Revised, With Additional Original Illustrations (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co., ca. 1905), by Mathias Duval and Andrew Melville Paterson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Grundformen der Mimik des Antlitzes, in Freiem Anschlusse an Piderits "Mimik und Physiognomik" mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bildenden Kunst (in German; Vienna: A. Schroll, 1902), by Hermann Heller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Alberti Dureri Clarissimi Pictoris et Geometrae de Symetria Partium in Rectis Formis Huanorum Corporum, Libri in Latinum Conuersi (in Latin; Nuremberg: In aedib. viduae Durerianae, 1532), by Albrecht Dürer (page images at Vatican Digital Library)

• The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), by Christine Mitchell Havelock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Alberti Dureri Clarissimi Pictoris et Geometrae de Symetria Partium in Rectis Formis Huanorum Corporum, Libri in Latinum Conuersi (in Latin; Nuremberg: In aedib. viduae Durerianae, 1532), by Albrecht Dürer (page images at Vatican Digital Library)

• Services for Children With Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate: A Guide for Public Health Personnel (New York: American Public Health Association, 1955), by American Public Health Association Committee on Child Health (page images at HathiTrust)

• Services for Children With Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate: A Guide for Public Health Personnel (New York: American Public Health Association, 1955), by American Public Health Association Committee on Child Health (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anatomie de la Tête du Lasius Niger (in French; Limoges: Ducourtieux et Gout, 1905), by Charles Janet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only; some foldouts not fully scanned)

• The Anatomy Of The Brain: A Text-book For Medical Students (Philadelphia et al.: F. A. Davis company, 1900), by Richard H. Whitehead
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Stereotaxic Atlas of the Marmoset Brain: With Immunohistochemical Architecture and MR Images (Tokyo: National Institute of Neuroscience; 2010), by Shigeki Yuasa, Katsuki Nakamura, and Shinichi Kohsaka (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• A Stereotaxic Atlas of The Brain of the Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia Guttata: With Special Emphasis on Telencephalic Visual and Song System Nuclei in Transverse and Sagittal Sections (Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2007), by Barbara E. Nixdorf-Bergweiler and Hans-Joachim Bischof (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• The Whole Brain Atlas (c1999), by Keith A. Johnson and J. Alex Becker (illustrated HTML at Harvard)

• The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and of the Teeth (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854), by Richard Owen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bioavailability of Drugs to the Brain and Blood-Brain Barrier, ed. by Jerry Frankenheim and Roger M. Brown (PDF at NIH)

• Bioavailability of Drugs to the Brain and Blood-Brain Barrier, ed. by Jerry Frankenheim and Roger M. Brown (PDF at NIH)

• The Cost Effectiveness of Digital Subtraction Angiography in the Diagnosis of Cerebrovascular Disease (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• In God's Waiting Room: Learning Through Suffering, by Lehman Strauss (HTML at bible.org)

• The Heart (2001), by Matthias Rath (PDF at dr-rath-foundation.org)

• Induction and Segregation of the Vertebrate Cranial Placodes (2010), by Byung-Yong Park and Jean-Pierre Saint-Jeannet (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• On the Osteopathic Treatment of Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat (Chicago: Still Research Institute, 1915), by John Deason (page images at MSU)

• A Practical Treatise on Dental Medicine: Being a Compendium of Medical Science, As Connected With the Study of Dental Surgery; To Which is Appended an Inquiry Into the Use of Chloroform, and Other Anaesthetic Agents (second edition; Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1852), by Thos. E. Bond
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Manual of Diseases of the Throat and Nose: Including the Pharynx, Larynx, Trachea, Oesophagus, Nose, and Naso-Pharynx (2 volumes in 1; New York: W. Wood and Co.; originally published 1880-1884), by Morell Mackenzie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Osteopathic Treatment of Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat (Chicago: Still Research Institute, 1915), by John Deason (page images at MSU)

• Indwelling Neural Implants: Strategies for Contending with the In Vivo Environment (2008), ed. by William M. Reichert (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• Atlases of the Spinal Cord and Brainstem and the Forebrain: Atlas I (fourth printing; Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, 1957), by Louis Hausman (page images at HathiTrust)
• How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now (c1996), by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML with commentary at williamcalvin.com)
• Anatomie des Menschlichen Gehirns und Rückenmarks auf Myelogenetischer Grundlage (only volume published; in German; Leipzig: G. Thieme, 1920), by Paul Flechsig
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language, by William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain (based on the 1991 edition), by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)

• Grundformen der Mimik des Antlitzes, in Freiem Anschlusse an Piderits "Mimik und Physiognomik" mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bildenden Kunst (in German; Vienna: A. Schroll, 1902), by Hermann Heller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Hair: Its Treatment in Health, Weakness, and Disease (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882), by J. Pincus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• El Uso de las Cabezas Humanas Artificialmente Momificadas y su Representación en el Antiguo Arte Peruano (doctoral thesis in Spanish; Lima: E. R. Villaran, ca. 1918), by Julio C. Tello (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Elements of Phrenology (1834 American edition), by George Combe (HTML at Plattsburgh)
• The Physiognomical System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim: Founded on an Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular; and Indicating the Dispositions and Manifestations of the Mind (second edition; London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815), by J. G. Spurzheim, contrib. by F. J. Gall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Practical Phrenologist, and Recorder and Delineator of the Character and Talents (Boston: O. S. Fowler, c1869), by O. S. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology, by O. S. Fowler (page images at MOA)
• A System of Phrenology (fifth edition; Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1853), by George Combe (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Loma, a Citizen of Venus (St. Paul, MN: Windsor and Lewis Pub. Co., 1897), by William Windsor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Scientific Basis of Education, by John Hecker (page images at MOA)
• Crania Americana: or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America; To Which is Prefixed, An Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species (with an appendix by Combe; Philadelphia: J. Dobson; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1839), by Samuel George Morton, contrib. by George Combe, illust. by John Collins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mind as a Cause and Cure of Disease, Presented From a Medical, Scientific and Religious Point of View (Chicago: The author, 1914), by Eli Beers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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