Arabics - Ann Noël magazine from the grit that gets

from the grit that gets stuck in a clam shell to the gunk that gets lodged under our fingernails

Robert Cumming

offer something remarkable: a journey into and of the many layers of being

where he researches the Soviet avant-garde and partisan memory

Simone de Beauvoir ’shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence’ (Sunday Telegraph)

Arabics - Ann Noël magazine from the grit that getsFor the first edition of ARABICS (1989) Ann Nol glued newspaper clippings and other printed matter into hundreds of collages. There were so many that the artist and publisher Rainer Pretzell decided to superimpose some of the denser ones in shades of grey. Ann Nol developed a printing scheme and produced the films in the publisher's darkroom. Rainer happened to have a large stock of the yellow paper used for three of the books in the series, including