ABSTRACT
This chapter explains artistic practices or artistic bundles. The chapter has three parts. Part one offers a very brief overview of practice theory and of treating art on its own terms. Part two then depicts art as a constellation of practice-material bundles, contrasting this depiction with Howard S. Becker's well-known account of art worlds. Part three discusses two key aspects of artistic bundles: the conjunction of teleology and embodied understanding, and sense experience within bundles. The chapter concludes with brief remarks about artistic and social change. Artistic change embraces transformations of phenomena such as techniques, works, ideas, and what people do. Small innovations are forever occurring in these things, and artists, consumers, distributors, and critics alike never know when bigger innovations will occur or how people and practices will react to an innovation, let alone when a specific change will lead to large or widespread changes, including an artistic "revolution".
