If you're interested in whether and how postmodern art/music/architecture has innate and/or learned appeal to people, there's a whole chapter Steven Pinker's bo

If you're interested in whether and how postmodern art/music/architecture has innate and/or learned appeal to people, there's a whole chapter Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate that discusses it. IIRC he argued that while one can acquire a taste for nearly anything, not all tastes are acquired.