JOURNAL ARTICLE

Reading Against the Frame: Photomontage and Trans Aesthetics in the Russian Avant-Garde.

  • Published In: Modernism/Modernity, 2025, v. 32, n. 2. P. 195 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Weinstein, Michael M. 3 of 3

Abstract

As the visibility of transgender identity has increased in recent years, popular discourse has tended to cast trans existence as radical, experimental, and new. This essay counters that trend with a provocation: what it might mean to locate models for trans phenomenology in works of the past, particularly those that espouse a revolutionary approach to both media and politics? The article posits the hybrid verbal-visual art forms of modernism in general, and early Soviet photo-montage works like Mayakovsky and Rodchenko's Pro Eto in particular, as aesthetic constructions that render otherwise "impossible" forms of trans embodiment concrete and conceivable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modernism/Modernity. 2025/04, Vol. 32, Issue 2, p195
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:1071-6068
  • DOI:10.1353/mod.2025.a972591
  • Accession Number:189214386
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