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• Winner of Winner of the 2021 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic Studies, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
• Winner of Winner, Best First Book, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Winner of the 2021 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic Studies, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

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Olenina's groundbreaking book introduces new material that allows for a radical rethinking of Russian modernism. It is a well-researched interdisciplinary history with far-reaching consequences for contemporary aesthetics at large. Very different fields of artistic activity and very different names (both well-known and forgotten ones) suddenly join to form a new and illuminating constellation of facts, works, and ideas, permitting to read the apparently well-known story of Russian avant-garde in a surprising way. In the study, historical material converges with recent attempts in post-Kantian aesthetics to overcome the role of the subject. The author's focus on kinesthetics and depersonalization opens up a possibility of thinking art beyond the limits of representation. Highly recommended for anybody interested in the history of modernism and posthuman (post-subjective) culture. -- Mikhail Iampolski, author of The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film A fascinating study about the expansion of modern psychology into the field of artistic practice and the countermovement of poets and film directors into the explorations of arts' effects and affects, stretching from the experiments of Russian physiologists and theories of Soviet Futurists and Constructivists to the post humanist condition. -- Oksana Bulgakowa, author of Sergei Eisenstein: A Biography Psychomotor Aesthetics offers a fantastic addition to the growing collection of scholarly work on modernism in its relation to contemporaneous sciences of the body. Impressive in its geographical reach, the book makes a compelling case for placing corporeal movement (and specifically the bi-directional relation between bodily motion and mental states) at the center of intersecting and competing modernist aesthetic projects, from futurist poetry to Eisensteinian filmmaking. -- Michael Cowan , Professor of Film and Media History, University of St Andrews

""Olenina's groundbreaking book introduces new material that allows for a radical rethinking of Russian modernism. It is a well-researched interdisciplinary history with far-reaching consequences for contemporary aesthetics at large. Very different fields of artistic activity and very different names (both well-known and forgotten ones) suddenly join to form a new and illuminating constellation of facts, works, and ideas, permitting to read the apparently well-known story of Russian avant-garde in a surprising way. In the study, historical material converges with recent attempts in post-Kantian aesthetics to overcome the role of the subject. The author's focus on kinesthetics and depersonalization opens up a possibility of thinking art beyond the limits of representation. Highly recommended for anybody interested in the history of modernism and posthuman (post-subjective) culture."" -- Mikhail Iampolski, author of The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film ""A fascinating study about the expansion of modern psychology into the field of artistic practice and the countermovement of poets and film directors into the explorations of arts' effects and affects, stretching from the experiments of Russian physiologists and theories of Soviet Futurists and Constructivists to the post humanist condition."" -- Oksana Bulgakowa, author of Sergei Eisenstein: A Biography ""Psychomotor Aesthetics offers a fantastic addition to the growing collection of scholarly work on modernism in its relation to contemporaneous sciences of the body. Impressive in its geographical reach, the book makes a compelling case for placing corporeal movement (and specifically the bi-directional relation between bodily motion and mental states) at the center of intersecting and competing modernist aesthetic projects, from futurist poetry to Eisensteinian filmmaking."" -- Michael Cowan , Professor of Film and Media History, University of St Andrews

Psychomotor Aesthetics offers a fantastic addition to the growing collection of scholarly work on modernism in its relation to contemporaneous sciences of the body. Impressive in its geographical reach, the book makes a compelling case for placing corporeal movement (and specifically the bi-directional relation between bodily motion and mental states) at the center of intersecting and competing modernist aesthetic projects, from futurist poetry to Eisensteinian filmmaking. * Michael Cowan, Professor of Film and Media History, University of St Andrews * A fascinating study about the expansion of modern psychology into the field of artistic practice and the countermovement of poets and film directors into the explorations of arts' effects and affects, stretching from the experiments of Russian physiologists and theories of Soviet Futurists and Constructivists to the post humanist condition. * Oksana Bulgakowa, , author of Sergei Eisenstein: A Biography *

Psychomotor Aesthetics offers a fantastic addition to the growing collection of scholarly work on modernism in its relation to contemporaneous sciences of the body. Impressive in its geographical reach, the book makes a compelling case for placing corporeal movement (and specifically the bi-directional relation between bodily motion and mental states) at the center of intersecting and competing modernist aesthetic projects, from futurist poetry to Eisensteinian filmmaking. * Michael Cowan, Professor of Film and Media History, University of St Andrews * A fascinating study about the expansion of modern psychology into the field of artistic practice and the countermovement of poets and film directors into the explorations of arts' effects and affects, stretching from the experiments of Russian physiologists and theories of Soviet Futurists and Constructivists to the post humanist condition. * Oksana Bulgakowa, , author of Sergei Eisenstein: A Biography * Olenina's groundbreaking book introduces new material that allows for a radical rethinking of Russian modernism. It is a well-researched interdisciplinary history with far-reaching consequences for contemporary aesthetics at large. Very different fields of artistic activity and very different names (both well-known and forgotten ones) suddenly join to form a new and illuminating constellation of facts, works, and ideas, permitting to read the apparently well-known story of Russian avant-garde in a surprising way. In the study, historical material converges with recent attempts in post-Kantian aesthetics to overcome the role of the subject. The author's focus on kinesthetics and depersonalization opens up a possibility of thinking art beyond the limits of representation. Highly recommended for anybody interested in the history of modernism and posthuman (post-subjective) culture. * Mikhail Iampolski, author of The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film *

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Ana Hedberg Olenina is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Media Studies at Arizona State University.

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