The postmodern sublime : installation and assemblage art / Paul Crowther -- The sublime is how : Philip Taaffe and Will Barnet / Cliff McMahon -- Kant and Malevich : the possibility of the sublime / Mojca Oblak -- Sublimity as process : Hegel, Newman and Shave / Richard Hooker -- Damien Hirst and the senbility of shock / Loura Wixley Brooks -- Silent visions : Lyotard on the sublime / Renée van de Vall -- 'Religion', transcendence, the light and the dark : the work of Jo Volley and Marcus Rees Roberts / Edward Winters -- The containment of memory : Duchamp, Fahrenholz, and the box / Paul Crowther.

This issue of "Art and Design" addresses some key aspects of current debate in relation to contemporary art. It offers general theoretical articles addressing the links between art and the sublime made by Jean-Francois Lyotard and by feminist thinkers. It also considers the relevance of the sublime to contemporary artists such as Philip Taaffe, Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker, with reference to artists such as Barnett Newman, Malevich and Rothko. This book is as much about themes as about specific artists and aims to raise questions involving contemporary attitudes to such topics as nature, violence and sexuality.