{"product_id":"remex-amy-sara-carroll-9781477311370","title":"Remex: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing dozens of compelling images, this transformative reading of borderland and Mexican cultural production--from body art to theater, photography, and architecture--draws on extensive primary research to trace more than two decades of social and political response in the aftermath of NAFTA. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Honorable Mention, Humanities Book Prize, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2018 \u003cbr\u003e Honorable Mention, Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2019\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eREMEX\u003c\/i\u003e presents the first comprehensive examination of artistic responses and contributions to an era defined by the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994-2008). Marshaling over a decade's worth of archival research, interviews, and participant observation in Mexico City and the Mexico-US borderlands, Amy Sara Carroll considers individual and collective art practices, recasting NAFTA as the most fantastical inter-American allegory of the turn of the millennium. Carroll organizes her interpretations of performance, installation, documentary film, built environment, and body, conceptual, and Internet art around three key coordinates--City, Woman, and Border. She links the rise of 1990s Mexico City art in the global market to the period's consolidation of Mexico-US border art as a genre. She then interrupts this transnational art history with a sustained analysis of chilanga and Chicana artists' remapping of the figure of Mexico as Woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tour de force that depicts a feedback loop of art and public policy--what Carroll terms the \"allegorical performative\"--\u003ci\u003eREMEX\u003c\/i\u003e adds context to the long-term effects of the post-1968 intersection of D.F. performance and conceptualism, centralizes women artists' embodied critiques of national and global master narratives, and tracks post-1984 border art's \"undocumentation\" of racialized and sexualized reconfigurations of North American labor pools. The book's featured artwork becomes the lens through which Carroll rereads a range of events and phenomenon from California's Proposition 187 to Zapatismo, US immigration policy, 9\/11 (1973\/2001), femicide in Ciudad Ju疵ez, and Mexico's war on drugs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Sara Carroll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477311378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477311370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Amy Sara Carroll","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989878833407,"sku":"9781477311370","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d68cd44-38e4-445f-9809-0d3fbc988bf0.jpg?v=1683301852","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/remex-amy-sara-carroll-9781477311370","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}