Illuminating the Shadow Ouvre of Mohammed Racim

The painter Mohammed Racim (1896–1975) was the best known Algerian artist of the twentieth century. His neo-traditional revival of the genre of the illuminated miniature appealed equally to French imperialists, to colonial subjects and to later generations of liberated Algerians.

This book offers close readings of a series of previously unseen chromolithographic prints which the artist created on a clandestine basis in the early decades of the twentieth century. It shows how these works meri...