REMEX

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REMEX can be read as another form of the atlas, with the fundamental difference that it is a cartography that maps and interprets the archive it produces...Carroll's book offers the clearest vision of the path that Mexican art took during the consolidation of the neoliberal paradigm...its research on sources and problems is exhaustive. (Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies) Carroll's superb research makes a seismic contribution to understanding Mexican and US Mexico border art in the post-NAFTA age. Aside from being an essential book in US-Mexico art, borderlands, history, interdisciplinary studies, political science, and women's studies courses, REMEX needs to be on everyone's reading list so we can all make sense of how we got to the haze permeating our countries. (Chiricu Journal) [REMEX] presents a welcome challenge to existing histories of Mexican art since 1984 and is a significant contribution to the growing field of border art studies...By critically examining canonical and lesser-known artists alike, REMEX reveals a nuanced and complex new understanding of the impact of neoliberal economic policy and the Mexican culture industry...Indeed, the consistent and well-researched political and economic parallels that are brought into dialog with interdependent movements in the art world constitute a great strength of this book. Carroll's expanded borders, made possible by the parsing of performative allegory, open avenues for examining other (non)sites shaped by NAFTA and will undoubtedly influence future studies of the period. (Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture) Carroll's [REMEX] is an attempt to write a history of Mexican art of [the NAFTA era] and, in so doing, to propose an alternative lineage for Latin American Conceptualism. (ARTMargins)