Subject Language Guide

If you're looking for subjects in LUNA and not finding results, try searching using the updated language:

 

Former Headings Updated Headings
abnormalities non-normative
African American universities and colleges Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
albinos albinism
architecture -- Oriental influences architecture -- Asian influences
brothers and sisters siblings
businessman, businesswomen businesspeople
cross-dressers, female impersonators drag queens
kabuki
drug, heroin abuse drug addiction
heroin addiction
dwarfs, dwarves dwarfs (folklore)
people with dwarfism
erotica erotic art
Eskimos indigenous Alaskans
Arctic
Inuit
exploration & discovery exploration and encounters
extraterrestrial beings aliens
fetishes (African art) figure
figure sculpture
nkisi
art, West African
fugitive slaves escape from enslavement
gay erotic art erotic art
queer culture
gay rights queer rights
gender non-conforming non-binary
Greek: Orientalizing style Proto-Archaic
hermaphroditism intersexuality
Hispanic Latinx, Latino, Latina
homeless boys, girls, street children children experiencing homelessness
homeless persons persons experiencing homelessness
homosexuality queer culture
homosexuality in motion pictures queer film
insane mental illness
man-woman relationships interpersonal relationships
minorities -- groups of people underrepresented groups of people
policewomen police
primitivism art, Modern, 20th century
prostitutes sex workers
racially-mixed people multiracial people
shelters for the homeless homelessness shelters
slaves enslaved persons
slaveholders enslavers
speech disorder speech disability
teenage girls teenagers
transvestism cross-dressing (also: drag queens)
transgender people
visual disorder visual impairment
Voodooism Haitian Vodou

 

Some other notes on language search-terms:

  • If you're looking for "women artists" or women of a specific culture, try separating terms into two search fields
    • Example: to find images of works under the subject "Indian women potters", try searching for the term "Indian potters" generally, or add "women" as a separate term
  • For style periods, search using "ist" suffixes, rather than "ism". For example, "Modernism" will be under the subject, while "Modernist" is the style.