Books by Yvonne Korshak

PERICLES AND ASPASIA: A Story of Ancient Greece, 2022

BEYOND THE TEXT: Artists’ Books from the Collection of Robert J. Ruben, 2010. With Robert J. Ruben

FRONTAL FACES IN ATTIC (GREEK) VASE PAINTING OF THE ARCHAIC PERIOD, 1987

SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION, 1983. With Irma Jaffe

Selected Articles on Art History by Yvonne Korshak

“From ‘passions’ to ‘Passion’: Visual and Verbal Puns in The Night Café.” VAN GOGH 100, J. G. Masheck, ed., 1996, pages 29 – 42.

“The Liberty Cap as a Revolutionary Symbol in America and France.” Smithsonian Studies in American Art, vol. 1, no. 2, Fall 1987, pages 53 – 69.

“Discussion and Contribution.” The Art Bulletin, vol. LXX, no. 3, September 1988, pages 504 – 529, focused on my article, “Paris and Helen by Jacques Louis David: Choice and Judgment on the Eve of the French Revolution,” see below.

“Paris and Helen by Jacques Louis David: Choice and Judgment on the Eve of the French Revolution.” The Art Bulletin, vol. LXIX, no. 1, March 1987, pages 102 – 116.

“Realism and Transcendent Imagery: Van Gogh’s Crows over the Wheatfield.” Pantheon, vol XLIII, 1985, pages 115 – 123.

“Courbet’s Burial at Ornans: The ‘Passion’ of an Idea.” Pantheon, vol. XL, 1982, pages 275 – 281.

“The Peleus Painter and his Companion Artist, the Hektor Painter.” (transl.) Antike Kunst, vol. 23, no. 2, pages 124 – 136. plates 27 – 32.

Yvonne Korshak received her BA cum laude from Harvard, and her MA in Classics and Classical Archaeology and PhD in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley.

As a professor at Adelphi University, she has taught Art History and topics in the Humanities, served as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, Director of the Honors Program in Liberal Studies and Director of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. She has written and spoken widely on topics of Greek art and archaeology and on European painting, particularly on van Gogh, Courbet and David. Her blog, “Let’s Talk Off-Broadway,” focuses on art and theater.

She has excavated at Old Corinth, Greece and, to write this novel, has followed in the tracks of Pericles and Aspasia, visiting almost all the cities and towns, landscapes and seascapes in Greece and in what today is Turkey that figure in this book.

Sword of the War God, a sequel to Pericles and Aspasia, will appear soon.