“…Their common thread and the volume's overall focus is on transformative and transdisciplinary approaches to research and practice - ways Susanne Elsen has encouraged throughout her career - pointing out her forward-looking contribution not only to social work but far beyond. …”

“…Life and death, presence and absence, an intuitive way of experiencing art and a diagnostic gaze, an apologia for artistic originality and a looming reproach for mechanical reproduction: these seemingly opposing terms are intermingled in an indissoluble way since the early debates about the sculptor - up to the highly polemical dispute between Rosalind Krauss and the Stanford art historian Albert Elsen in the 1980s which will be discussed in the last chapter. …”