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Cults have become a phenomenon in our world today. Each year "hundreds of Canadians join some of the 3,000 unorthodox religions of one type or another" (Fernell, Branswell, 189) all across North America. Like every organization, club or even in the common work place there is usually a person who is a figure of authority or other wise know as a "leader" and with every leader there are always rules and objectives that each and every member has to do and follow. The common psychological profile and objective of a cult leader is usually based upon power, control, domination and subjugation. Many cult leaders use forms of mind control such as thought-reform, brainwashing and hypnosis. The effects of these mind controlling techniques often mentally scar people and it is very hard to re-gain control of what use to be their â€Å"normal† personality, way of thinking and life. Unselfishness, kindness, gentleness and compassion should be a basic living principle, not just an ideal. When individuals claim to be â€Å"spiritually developed and put themselves in the role of a master or prophet† (Hassen, 01) cult members â€Å"become so subservient to their leader that they even tolerate murder† (Fennel, 185). Destructive cults want to have control and power over people and want to expand their temporal power and usually do it to make money. Leaders exist to serve totalistic dictators, not to serve the people and desire to rule through power, not with the power of love. Charismatic leaders often stray into temptation to exploit their power over others in many dangerous ways. The cult leader often relies almost entirely on rules, procedures, aggression, denial and mimicry to hide their lack of people skills. Cult leaders are able to exert a hold over people for a variety of reasons. The members sometimes feel they belong to a group or "family& quot; because they feel secure and have a new way of thinking and believing the "real" way the world is or should be and as â€Å"the leader’s actions become more bizarre, so do the cult’s members† (Fennel, 186). Many people are thought to believe that the only type of people to become influenced or brain washed into joining a cult are those that are insecure, lonely and nieve. However, the people cult leaders actually strive for are the bright, intelligent people whom usually have 2-3 years of college or university... ... at a party or on a bus ride can be supportive. Supporting is listening and empathizing with the ex-member with out the offering of unsolicited options. Simply being there is one of the best ways anyone can help. The hunger for spiritual guidance and religious truth is usually what drives people into exploring many of the different existing religions all over North America and in other parts of the world. Many problems tend to arise when the leaders of these cultic groups proclaim themselves to be living embodiments of this truth. The many great dangers of cults lie in the leap one must take from embracing religious truth, to worshipping a person claiming to be this so called â€Å"truth†. The danger of these cults increase rapidly when the person promises salvation, redemption or perfection in exchange for money, goods and services. Once a person begins giving in to the leader and the rest of the cult members, the stronger their grasp becomes upon the person and the harder it becomes to leave the group. Victims (ex-cult members) â€Å"can and should be helped with both the induced and pre-existing aspects of their problem, at the appropriate points in treatment† (Clifford, Gold berg p 03).

Patriotism and National Pride Essay

Pride (without complacency and with an awareness of imperfections) is important in spurring individuals and a society on to greater achievement. The loss of faith in the achievements of the past, history and traditions can be an important factor in the decline of a culture or a civilization. a sense of national pride and purpose that enables residents in a particular area to rise above the divisions of race, politics, ideology, class and the like. It is patriotism that unites the people and enables them to rise above narrow sectarian and other interests. A sense of unashamed pride which does not degenerate into jingoism or imperialism is essential for the growth of individuals and the development of a nation. A sense of national pride has spurred achievements in science and technology (the space race), sport and in economic development. Pride in the past and patriotism (within bounds and without complacency) are essential to real human progress. Is Patriotism Dead? Many of our people will offer no salutes, feel no sense of pride, and pledge no allegiance to the flag. Some will not respond because of indifference or calloused hearts. Others will be working to tear the fabric of our national life to shreds; to worsen, not heal, our sickness; to destroy, not to build; to bring disunity, not unity, to the nation. For them, patriotism is dead; love of country is archaic. Has the time come for us to abolish what our forefathers created? Has their vision of liberty, justice, and happiness proved unattainable?Are we ready to say that the mythos, the heroes, and the folk tales that have bound us together as a people for almost two hundred years no longer enthrall us? Are we willing to forget our common heritage, dilute our sense of fraternity and destiny, and dissolve the cohesiveness that made us one? We are faced with grave and challenging problems in our national life. We see  many things we dislike, and can point to many injustices that have not yet yielded to truth and righteousness. But even as we acknowledge the defects we cannot forget the victories. The slaves have been freed; universal suffrage has become a reality; startling advances have been made to assure all our people of life and liberty as well as the right to pursue happiness. Indians need not gloss over the nation’s defects or sweep its failures under the rug. They need not claim that their country is always right. When it is right, they will support it; and when it is wrong, they will love it and work to correct it.The day that patriotism ceases, that day we will have ceased to be a people Patriotism is not dead; our nation is not finished. Let us rally behind our flag; let us love our country with all its faults; let us work to improve it with all our strength; let usdefend it with all our resources; let us hand it on to generations unborn better than it was when we received it; let us instill in our children the hope of our forefathers for the ultimate fulfillment of their dreams. But above all, let us tell them that the greatness of America lies not simply in the achievement of the ideal but in the unrelenting pursuit of it The feel of patriotism The nation celebrated its 60th year Independence recently. one can see the visual medium rolling out exclusive shorts as a mark of tribute to the heroes who fought for our Independence. It was a summit of sort, when one could see most of the big names summon together to play or sing the National Anthem. The minute one sees that visual, it is definite he/she could feel something happening within themselves. A look at the majestic flag gives a feeling that we are the citizens of the Independent India. For a second one could feel all the struggles, trials and tribulations our leaders in the past have undergone to obtain it. I was one among those who felt very proud that I am a citizen of Independent India and I was able to feel a sense of pride when I just took a look at the flag. But, my mind paused for a second to think how many of us are really patriotic? only a handful was the answer. Are the schools imparting enough amount of patriotism into the minds of the young ones during their school days. For the little ones, Independene day means nothing but a public holiday and a few choclates given at their  schools once the flag is hoisted. Beyond that, do the teachers feed the kids with the required information on freedom stuggle and the pioneers who fought for it? Nope. I felt sorry when a kid, pointing out to the portrait of a poet, whose writings worked wonders for the freedom struggle, asked who that man was? This is not a joke to laugh at but a matter to think about. Neither the teachers nor the elders at home make an effort to teach the young ones about those great leaders who were responsible for our Independence. Another incident in the bus in which I was travelling made me feel why on the first place we got Independence. The military rule suits us best. A man was smoking inside the bus, and a few women including myself, showed our objection for that. His immediate reply was, what is this? This is Independent India and I am not allowed to smoke here? This is strange! This is just a small dose of such incidents happening on a daily basis. everyone is sure to come across such incidents or characters. It is saddening to note that the world is heading towards destruction with such characters roaming about in the public. when will we get the sense of patriotism and realise the struggles underwent to obtain freedom is a million-dollar question. If this situation persists, it will not be shocking if the younger ones ask who is the father of the nation and who is Jawaharlal Nehru? what a plight that would descend on the Nation then? The structure of patriotism Every social group has its own notions of loyalty. The institution of family embeds loyalty to the family as a social group. When a son and his wife and children separate from the rest of the family or when brothers divide their property, the neighborhood reacts with sorrow and not glee. Caste associations emphasize the benefits which come from an active participation and cooperation between different members of the same caste. Tribal groups, too, emphasize similar benefits from collaboration. The notion of patriotism is different from such forms of group loyalty. The difference lies in its close affinity with the state. Patriotism is not based upon kinship or of shared descent like in families, castes and tribes. Patriotism is based upon the idea of a nation and its central institution, the state.Patriotism in modern India is thus qualitatively different from  the love of one’s community that was to be seen in ancient and medieval India. Its relation to one’s country has changed with the change in the social structure of the state and the nation. To a great extent the pre-modern states and countries were based upon the rule of one or a few social groups. The Gupta period was dominated by the Guptas and their kindred and allies. The Mughals saw the domination of the Mughal biradari, and their supporters who included the Turks, the Iranians and several other groups like the Rajputs. Modern India is based upon the ideology of equality of all. While there continue to be several hangovers of the past to be seen today, the basic character of the state and the nation have changed. Modern India is based upon the idea that all its citizens are equal and that its rulers represent the will of not just a few, but all of the different communities that make up this country. This nation is based upon different foundations than most of those which went before it. Its legitimacy lies in its being able to satisfy its various component communities that their interests will be safeguarded by the Indian state. Irrespective of the religion, caste, community, sex of the individual, the state is supposed to represent each and every of them. The modern nation has its appeal because of its being able to mediate between and reconcile often conflicting interests. The state is considered legitimate when it speaks with the same voice to all. It is the coming together of so many diverse groups which lends strength to the country. The strength of India lies in its being able to weld together a large and heterogeneous populace into a common force. Any country in modern times which seeks to progress and develop must find ways of attracting and retaining the loyalty of its constituent groups. In modern nations this is done by everybody voting to select their rulers and the creation of a bureaucracy based on selection through merit. A modern state, with its universal appeal to its people, has many advantages over the older kinds of nationhood and statehood, with their sectional support bases. The universalistic modern state is what the most powerful countries of the world have. It is through this social form that resources are used most efficiently and the diverse forces of a country focussed for the benefit of everybody. Patriotism in a modern country cannot be created on the basis of ideas that appeal to only partisan groups or some sections of society. The naked use of force to coerce acceptance of the nation is not a characteristic of a society based on reason and democracy. The content of patriotism in a modern country The transformed structure of patriotism leads to a change in the content of what patriotism would mean in everyday practice. Modern patriotism and nationhood is based upon symbols that all can share. By definition this excludes symbols that pit religion against religion. Patriotism in a modern country must be expressed through universal symbols. These are all around us and yet are ignored. The streets of a neighborhood are a truer symbol of nationhood than a place of worship. They are used by all and paid for by the contributions of all. Yet, they remain filthy while people pool money to build distant places of worship. When universal symbols are not altogether ignored here, they are attacked by all kinds of distortions. The symbols of the rich are enthroned as the symbols of the entire nation. The tragedy of the many poor who have been thrown out of their homes by big dams does not arouse us. The tragedy of the middle-class Kashmiri Pandits who were forced to leave their homes does. The latter are called refugees in their own homeland. The dispossessed adivasis and rural poor who did not have relatives that they could flee to in Delhi do not attract national sympathy. Nor do the Kashmiri Muslims who had to flee Kashmir, in spite of their outnumbering the Kashmiri Pandits. Clearly we are still in the process of moving towards modern nationhood. The model of modernity which Indians must aspire towards cannot be the same as that in the West. We are far too heterogeneous to ever become the kind of nation which fascist Germany once aspired to be. And our forms of production are still not capitalistic enough to become the kind of melting pot of identities which the USA was. We must define our own modernity. That universal framework of Indian reason must be the framework through which our  nationhood and patriotism must be defined. It must be a patriotism which seeks with Gandhiji the happiness of the poorest of the poor as the index of our national development. It must be a patriotism which sees the freedom of the smallest of the minorities as the index of our social development. It must be a patriotism which comes into action every day, through a conscience that sees lying to customers, exploiting labourers, cheating on tax, paying bribes, adding sand to cement, oppressing the poor, paying obeisance to the powerful, all these daily acts of betrayal of the people as treason. Every secular space in a modern country teaches a lesson of patriotism. But school education is a special area for our concern. It is here where most young people come together crossing the old boundaries of religion and caste. It is here where the new nation is being constructed. That makes it even more necessary to be cautious about the introduction of religious values in schools. The kind of values which we seek must be in tune with the universal appeal of our country. Where the values being taught emphasize freedom of thought and truths that are shared by all and not just a few. The modern idea of India is about equality and the transcendence of social barriers, not about narrow dividing walls. It is high time that we rethought our school experience to try and create a land where the patriot is she who risks her life to protect an unknown stranger, and where the traitor is he who kills his friend in the name of his god. Pride (without complacency and with an awareness of imperfections) is important in spurring individuals and a society on to greater achievement. The loss of faith in the achievements of the past, history and traditions can be an important factor in the decline of a culture or a civilization. a sense of national pride and purpose that enables residents in a particular area to rise above the divisions of race, politics, ideology, class and the like. It is patriotism that unites the people and enables them to rise above narrow sectarian and other interests. A sense of unashamed pride which does not degenerate into jingoism or imperialism is essential for the growth of individuals and the development of a nation. A sense of national pride has spurred achievements in science and technology (the space race), sport and in economic development. Pride in the past and patriotism (within bounds and  without complacency) are essential to real human progress. Is Patriotism Dead? Many of our people will offer no salutes, feel no sense of pride, and pledge no allegiance to the flag. Some will not respond because of indifference or calloused hearts. Others will be working to tear the fabric of our national life to shreds; to worsen, not heal, our sickness; to destroy, not to build; to bring disunity, not unity, to the nation. For them, patriotism is dead; love of country is archaic. Has the time come for us to abolish what our forefathers created? Has their vision of liberty, justice, and happiness proved unattainable? Are we ready to say that the mythos, the heroes, and the folk tales that have bound us together as a people for almost two hundred years no longer enthrall us? Are we willing to forget our common heritage, dilute our sense of fraternity and destiny, and dissolve the cohesiveness that made us one? We are faced with grave and challenging problems in our national life. We see many things we dislike, and can point to many injustices that have not yet yielded to truth and righteousness. But even as we acknowledge the defects we cannot forget the victories. The slaves have been freed; universal suffrage has become a reality; startling advances have been made to assure all our people of life and liberty as well as the right to pursue happiness.Indians need not gloss over the nation’s defects or sweep its failures under the rug. They need not claim that their country is always right. When it is right, they will support it; and when it is wrong, they will love it and work to correct it. The day that patriotism ceases, that day we will have ceased to be a people Patriotism is not dead; our nation is not finished. Let us rally behind our flag; let us love our country with all its faults; let us work to improve it with all our strength; let us defend it with all our resources; let us hand it on to generations unborn better than it was when we received it; let us instill in our children the hope of our forefathers for the ultimate fulfillment of their dreams. But above all, let us tell them that the  greatness of America lies not simply in the achievement of the ideal but in the unrelenting pursuit of it.

Cultural Appropriation Culture And Appropriation

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How Social Networking Changed Communication - 1504 Words

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Information System in Royal Adelaide Hospital-Samples for Students

Question: Discuss about the Information System in Royal Adelaide Hospital. Answer: Introduction The report provides a case study on a newly constructed hospital in Australia, the Royal Adelaide Hospital. The target of the directors of South Australian Health department is to construct an excellent hospital equipped with latest information systems that will help them to electronically record and store health information of each patient, store case notes electronically, and implement robotics and such (www.health.gov.au, 2017). The pharmacy, general administration, payroll and finance systems should also be equipped with sophisticated software. It is identified that many of the information systems used by the hospital are out dated. The objective of the report is to provide suggestions regarding the information systems that can be implemented to the hospital to replace the outdated ones. Overview on available information systems A brief outline is provided on the latest information systems that can be implemented to the hospital for the performance of several of its functionalities. MYOB Mind Your Own Business (MYOB) is an Australian based tax and accounting software organisation that provides accounting software packages to businesses ranging from small to large scale. The software provided by MYOB ranges from physically installed software to browser based or cloud based software. MYOB accounting software can be implemented to the Royal Adelaide Hospital that will help the finance department in its finance related functionalities (Coast, 2014). Orion Health Orion Health is a globally reputed company based in New Zealand that develops and provides software related to health care. The goal of the company is to aid with sophisticated technology to boost the efficiency of health care (Healthpayrollinquiry.qld.gov.au, 2017). The company delivers technology solutions for accurate medicine suggestion, efficient flow of operation between the healthcare personnel and the patients, and health management of population. The software provided by the company are developed on an open data platform and their integrated solution aids to manage all kinds of health related information effectively. Such a system can be beneficial for a hospital like the Royal Adelaide Hospital that requires a proper health record monitoring system ("Orion Health | From Integration to Precision Medicine", 2017). The da Vinci System The system is a revolution in the field of robotics and health care technology. The system is used for the purpose of minimal invasive surgery. It has served over 3 million patients worldwide. The da Vinci system has a magnified and high definition 3D vision system and small wristed robotic arms that can twist and rotate to more complex angles than a human hand (www.floppybunny.org, 2017). The surgeon has complete control on the device at all time of the surgery phase. The technology in the system shadows the movement of the hand of the surgeon and reproduces smaller, precision movements with the aid of the robotic arms of the device on the body of the patient. This system can be implemented in the surgery division of the Royal Adelaide Hospital for the purpose of surgery (Kazanzides et al., 2014). ScriptPro (SP) Prescription Dispensing Robots The SP series of prescription dispensing robots are used in pharmacy. These robots help in processing nearly 150 prescriptions per hour and arrange the necessary medication accordingly. This reduces the chance of wrong medication and cross contamination. These robots can prove to be the workhorse behind maintaining and efficient pharmacy counter. The robot can print automatically and apply auxiliary warning label. These robots have documented uptime rate of approximately 99.46% and counting precision of 99.7%. The SP series of robots are a perfect solution for the pharmaceutical department of a newly built hospital like the Royal Adelaide Hospital (Ahadani, De Silva, Petra, Hameed Wong, 2012). Feasibility Study This part of the report provides a feasibility study on the proposed information systems and their impact on the hospital that is provided in the previous parts of the report. Implementation of the MYOB accounting software will aid the finance department of the hospital in maintaining a steady check on the issues related to finance. MYOB will facilitate the finance department with the following functions: Working Online Calculation and tracking of GST Managing quotes, invoices and statements Accepting payment from invoices Tracking and Payment of expenses Helps to sync the bank accounts and credit cards of the staffs Facilitation of an advanced payroll system that will calculate leaves taken by employees automatically and produce a real-life timesheet These facilities will help the finance department of Royal Adelaide hospital maintain records of financial transactions easily and efficiently. Lesser amount of staffs will be required to maintain the tasks in the finance department that will help the hospital to reduce the expenditure to recruit and maintain extra personnel in the finance division. The payroll system will provide accurate report on each employee based on days worked and leaves taken and make payments accordingly with detailed timesheet in real time. This will reduce the chance of payment failure or wrong payment that creates grievances among the employees ("MYOB Accounting Software | Review Plans Prices Canstar Blue", 2017). The implementation of health care software from the Orion Health will allow the administration of the hospital to maintain the records of the patients accurately along with their treatment history in their hospital as well as the medications that they have been prescribed in the past ("Health Metrics Network (HMN)", 2017). The software also maintains a record on the duration of treatment that is provided to each patient, which helps the administration of the hospital to keep a record on the existing patient population and manage accordingly ("Orion Health | From Integration to Precision Medicine", 2017). The da Vinci robotic system will help to give a new edge in the surgery division of the hospital, as it will add to the precision in invasive surgery process and minimise the complications that arise during any surgery. The success rates in the surgery process will motivate more patients to enlist in the hospital for being operated and this will help in increase of the reputation of the hospital and make the institution an excellent health care centre (Kazanzides et al., 2014). The SP series robots will efficiently boost the performance of the pharmaceutical department of the hospital. The staffs of the pharmacy store built by the hospital have to deal with lots of prescriptions provided by the patients and have to supply the prescribed medicines accordingly. However, the main issue related to this is the time management that is required to cater every patient efficiently. Unlike other retail stores, a pharmacy store receives customer who are mostly in emergency and require the medication supplied as soon as possible. A limited amount of staffs fail to do so which results in grievances from the customers. The implementation of these robots will reduce the need to keep excess staffs to cater to the increasing load of customers while providing efficient processing at the rate of 150 prescriptions per hour. The use of these bots will also reduce the chances of any contamination that may spread due to the irresponsibility of a pharmacy staff. The hospital will be able to provide its patients an efficiently functional pharmacy store, which will add to its reputation (Ahadani, De Silva, Petra, Hameed Wong, 2012). Recommendations and Critical Success Factors The information systems proposed in the previous part of the report will be effective in providing the necessary efficiency to the hospital and improving its reputation worldwide. It is recommended to implement these information systems along with other systems the administration of the hospital see fit for its functionalities. The four proposed information system will cover its administrative, financial, health care as well as pharmaceutical divisions and help in achieving accuracy and cost friendly environment for the same. The critical success factors like achieving patient satisfaction, providing a unique service, creating a high-tech health care environment, efficient and flawless performance will be successfully achieved as well. Conclusion The report concludes with the insight that the implementation of the proposed information systems will surely revolutionise the facilities and functionalities of Royal Adelaide Hospital that will help its management to achieve their desired objective of creating a technically furnished hospital whose reputation will spread worldwide due to its efficiency and uniqueness of services provided to its patients. 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Theory of Modern Art Institutions

It is like time travel to look at vintage images from the 1960s of Yves Klein creating art using the naked bodies of young women, blue paint, and paper surfaces. Watching his process of creation, it is easy to see why some members of the public threw up their hands in bafflement and disapproval at ‘modern art’, and still do so today.Advertising We will write a custom essay sample on Theory of Modern Art Institutions specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page Learn More It is also easy to understand the reaction of governments that provide funding for cultural activities. If the daily news is any measure, they often dismiss such displays as antics, immoral, trivial, or simply not constituting art at all. Institutions of culture, such as museums, may have similar concerns. However, in our decade, they seem to wish to err on the side of accepting as art things that might not be art, rather than risking overlooking a work or an artist that hi story will show to have had merit. Klein himself seems to have been trying to detach the experience of art from anything that would engage the viewer, largely in an institutional setting, whether by eliminating multiple colors, focusing on blue to the exclusion of all others, by directing women to use other women’s bodies as paintbrushes, or by proposing buildings entirely without walls or furniture. However, as odd as all this can seem, he has been accepted by prominent institutions, such as the Hirschorn Museum. His proposals fit into a continuum of detachment from the real and the concrete that has been evident in the art and the writing on art in the 20th century. In his piece entitled â€Å"The Evolution of Art towards the Immaterial†, Klein describes how he arrived at the idea that even two colors were too many. He felt that the presence of two colors would involve the viewer in a visual exercise that he did not intend. After seeing that the viewers responded to a wall of paintings of different colors by trying somehow to form them into one coherent whole, even if he did not intend that to be the interpretation. This phenomenon reflects the institutional locale in which his work appeared. After all, if viewers were seeing one painting at a time in a private home or a corporate office, they could not make this visual collation and re-interpretation of his paintings.Advertising Looking for essay on art and design? Let's see if we can help you! Get your first paper with 15% OFF Learn More In reaction to this experience, he says, â€Å"I precisely and categorically refuse to present on one surface even the interplay of two colors†[1] In this instance, the support of institutions of art actually worked against his purposes. When one looks at the footage from a subsequent decade, documenting his works using blue women, which are conveniently recorded in snippets on YouTube[2], it is very tempting to see this as a stunt. Howev er, in light of the readings, this approach to art fits neatly, if bizarrely, into a progression of thought and practice over the middle decades of the 20th Century. For example, consider Michel Foucault’s adroit questioning of the whole concept of authorship[3] in What is an Author? In the case of the blue women, there is a reasonable question as to whether the author is Klein, the woman manipulating the paint-covered woman, or perhaps even the paint-covered woman herself. The whole institutions of publishing, where the name associated with a work is crucial, as Foucault notes[4], and the emphasis on attribution in museums are all called into doubt by the use of such a technique. As another example of how Klein’s work fits into the mood of the time, consider Germano Celant’s encouragement of â€Å"an innocent art’[5] in his piece entitled Arte Povera. In the context of Celant’s insistence on utter simplicity, nothing could be simpler. What does t he ‘poor’ artist need except a bucket of paint, a surface, and a naked body? Klein’s technique neatly eliminates the need for the whole tradition of academic art training, and associated colleges, trusts, foundations, scholarships, internships, artists’ colonies, not to speak of the entire business sector of art supply stores. Finally, Klein’s approach to art fits with the egalitarian stance of Joseph Beuys’ essay; I am Searching for Field Character. When he states, â€Å"This most modern art discipline – Social Sculpture/Social Architecture – will only reach fruition when every living person becomes a creator, a sculptor, or architect of the social organism†[6], he could be describing the ultimate logical working out of Klein’s technique. The artist could be the brush if need be.Advertising We will write a custom essay sample on Theory of Modern Art Institutions specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page Learn More There is no need for training, no need for fancy diploma. The individual can simply strip, apply paint to self, and apply self to surface. The random nature of the result is clearly acceptable. Neither talent nor training is needed. Everyone can be his or her own artist. No need for art authenticators, or auction houses, or forensic art experts, and all the institutions associated with them! In light of these readings, the 1960’s work of Klein can be seen as a logical evolution away from art that one looks at and wonders about to, eventually, art that one lives, perhaps literally. The readings make clear that the mid-century period was a time in which the relationship of art to all sorts of institutions was being called into question. However, it has been increasingly a time when museums have been more liberal and open to new forms than ever before. Without their support, any artist would have difficulty in publicizing their work and ideas. This continues to be the case, even in the era of the internet. Thus, there seems to be a continuing tension, observable in the context of these readings and now as well, between a need for institutions and a wish to dispense with them entirely. Bibliography Beuys, Joseph. â€Å"I Am Searching for Field Character.† In Art in Theory: 1900-2000, by C. Harrison and P. Wood, 929-930. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. Celant, Germano. â€Å"Arte Povera.† In Art in Theory: 1900-2000, by C. Harrison and P. Wood, 897-900. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. Foucault, Michel. â€Å"What is an Author?† In Art in Theory: 1900-2000, by C. Harrison and P. Wood, 949-953. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002.Advertising Looking for essay on art and design? Let's see if we can help you! Get your first paper with 15% OFF Learn More Klein, Yves. â€Å"The Evolution of Art Towards the Immaterial.† In Art in Theory: 1900-2000, by C. Harrison and P. Wood, 818-820. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. —. â€Å"Yves Klein’s Anthropometries: Selection from Yves Klein: The Blue Revolution.† Hirschornmuseum. Franà §ois Là ©vy-Kuentz. 2007. Web. Footnotes Klein, Yves. â€Å"The Evolution of Art Towards the Immaterial†, in Harrison, C., and Wood, P.. Art in Theory: 1900-2000. (Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002). Page 818. (Klein, Yves Klein’s Anthropometries: Selection from Yves Klein: The Blue Revolution 2007). Foucault, Michel. â€Å"What is an Author?†, in Harrison, C. and Wood, P. Art in Theory: 1900-2000. (Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002). Page 950. (Foucault 2002, 949). Celant, Germano. â€Å"Art Povera†, in Harrison, C. and Wood, P. Art in Theory: 1900-2000. (Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002). Page 899. Beuys, Joseph. â€Å"I am Searching for Field Character†, in Harrison, C. and Wood, P. Art in Theory: 1900-2000. (Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002). Page 929. This essay on Theory of Modern Art Institutions was written and submitted by user Ellis Tyler to help you with your own studies. You are free to use it for research and reference purposes in order to write your own paper; however, you must cite it accordingly. You can donate your paper here.