Bad taste

Issues

Are there objective standards about taste or is it purely a matter of preference? If the latter why do we label certain people as having bad taste?

[*] Gardner "Aesthetics" in Grayling (ed.) Philosophy : a guide through the subject Oxford. Read section 1 of chapter 11. hkulib:b1451397 on reserve.
- A much shorter online version (HKU intranet) : section 1
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-aesthetics/ sections 3 & 4.
David Hume "Of the Standard of Taste" http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfbits/htaste.pdf
Ch. 6 of http://library.hku.hk/record=b2596809