This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieuâs sociology of taste. For the first time this book unites sociologists and other social scientists with artists and curators art theorists and art educators and art design and cultural historians who engage with the practice of taste as it relates to encounters with art cultural institutions and the practices of everyday life in national and transnational contexts. The volume is divided into four sections. The first section on âTaste and artâ shows how art practice was drawn into the sphere of âgood tasteâ contrasting this with a post-conceptualist critique that offers a challenge to the social functions of good taste through an encounter with art. The next section on âTaste making and the museumâ examines the challenges and changing social political and organisational dynamics propelling museums beyond the terms of a supposedly universal institution and language of taste. The third section of the book âTaste after Bourdieu in Japanâ offers a case study of the challenges to the cross-cultural transmission and local reproduction of âgood tasteâ exemplified by the complex cultural context of Japan. The final section on âTaste the home and everyday lifeâ juxtaposes the analysis of the reproduction of inequality and alienation through taste with arguments on how the legacy of ideas of âgood tasteâ have extended the possibilities of experience and sharpened our consciousness of identity. As the first book to bring together arts practitioners and theorists with sociologists and other social scientists to examine the legacy and continuing validity of Pierre Bourdieuâs sociology of taste this publication engages with the opportunities and problems involved in understanding the social value and the cultural dispositions of taste âafter Bourdieuâ. It does so at a moment when the practice of taste is being radically changed by the global expansion of cultural choices and the emergence of deploying impersonal algorithms as solutions to cultural and creative decision-making. . Language: English