Rebecca Warren Bücher

A fresh take on the traditional almanac, here is a companion to the British seasons - all 72 of them.

Parkett 78 features the artists Ernesto Neto, Olaf Nicolai and Rebecca Warren. Neto's drooping, opaque lycra installations envelop the viewer in a fog of fabric, a cushion for the gaze, their milky skins leaving children ecstatic and adults in a Fredric Jamesonian "Hyperspace." Olaf Nicolai's concept-driven art, like much of the avant-garde work of the last half-century, remains set on integrating art with daily life. We experience this "blurring" in his randomly arranged pre-fabricated Pantone colors, ornamental stones taken from a 1960s Dresden shopping mall and wall text reading, "A short catalogue of things that you think you want…" Rebecca Warren makes vulgar, lumpy plasticine figures that show the influence of Giacometti and R. Crumb alike. As Neal Brown writes, her figures are, "fingered and improperly squeezed into something that is compulsively-chaotic-masturbatory-fat-ugly-disfigured-repressed-incontinent-excretory-bestial-bulimic…" The issue also features Erwin Wurm, Andro Wekua and Vito Acconci, with texts by Yuko Hasegawa, Paulo Herkenhoff, Charles Esche, Vincent Pécoil, Catherine Lampert, Marjorie Perloff and Kate Fowle, among others.

»Othello«, eine der großen Tragödien Shakespeares, war schon bei der Uraufführung (vermutlich im Jahre 1604) ein großer Erfolg und ist unverändert aktuell. Wir heute sehen in dem Stück Bezüge, die Shakespeares Zeitgenossen aufgrund eines völlig anderen Weltbildes noch entgingen. Diese Ausgabe enthält den englischen Text, eine genaue deutsche Prosaübersetzung, einen Anmerkungsteil und ein Nachwort.

The story follows fourteen-year-old Sophie Gordon as she grapples with the devastating loss of her mother to depression. With her father turning to alcohol for solace, Sophie struggles to cope with her grief, leading her to seek comfort in food. This ultimately spirals into a cycle of compulsive dieting, highlighting her battle with emotional turmoil and the quest for stability in a fractured family dynamic.

Offering a unique perspective on the traditional almanac, this gift edition serves as a comprehensive guide to the British seasons, celebrating all 72 of them. It blends seasonal insights with engaging content, making it an ideal companion for anyone interested in the rhythms of nature throughout the year.

Building on the formula of York Notes, this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. The notes enable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking. Key features include: study methods; an introduction to the text; summaries with critical notes; themes and techniques; textual analysis of key passages; author biography; historical and literary background; modern and historical critical approaches; chronology; and glossary of literary terms.