Art Monsters

'Destined to become a new classic'

Chris Kraus

'Soaring and vivid ... it left me giddy with possibility'

Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat 

'You won't find anything like this history, told in this way, anywhere else'

Lubaina Himid

'Juxtaposes ideas, images, language, in a vivid collage that invites us to look more deeply'

Jeanette Winterson

'A fascinating re-visioning and re-imagining of women artists who have used their bodies in all sorts of creative, subversive ways.'

Juliet Jacques

A lively and vibrant account of feminist art that articulates the everyday experience of having a body... [a] superb book

Spectator

Insightful, provocative and at times heartbreaking

Literary Review

Art Monsters joins a larger conversation about monstrousness and art... provoking new, deeper questions about how feminism can and must evolve to engage with those who do things differently

Guardian

Compulsively readable... Art Monsters is a remarkably joyful book in which the senses are tested and explored, and the boundaries of disgust and desire redrawn

i

A heavy read at times, but this is not a book for taking the easy route - and is all the more rewarding for it

UK Press Syndication

Elkin’s book is a self-confessed monster… [and] is also her personal quest to become immoderate and unruly… where she dos cut loose and take flight, it is intoxicating to be carried along in her slipstream

Times Literary Supplement

A must-have resource for discovering influential art work of marginalised women reporting on life in the abject

Morning Star