Advertising for what? The owner had not displayed them as part marketing marketing and advertising campaigns, he's a private own. They are recreations of fictio

Advertising for what? The owner had not displayed them as part marketing marketing and advertising campaigns, he's a private own. They are recreations of fictional characters that have been around for decades and, yes, happen to have movies made about them. (Movies which themselves fall into some category of art as well). Otherwise: > In the 1500s there wasn't really advertising This is simply wrong and requires only a LMGTFY and I will leave that to you. Advertisements extend back to ancient civilizations. Being wrong, and given the presence of public advertising through the centuries, the argument that these robots are, as advertisements (even if I agreed on that), verboten for public display, that argument is invalid. As for aiming it at children, that is irrelevant because, again, what the person in this article did was not advertising. Flush Toilets and bottled beer: You've chosen two things that, like the statue of David, would undoubtedly have garnered neighborly ire. So I am claiming that statues of David would not have been well regarded, and your counter claim is something like "Well here are other items that would have also been disapproved of". That sounds much more like agreement than a valid counterclaim. Further, you've chosen two items that in modern times do actually have examples of their being used as art. Finding examples is again a very simple matter of LMGTFY. Next, actual advertisement including bear bottles (sometimes just their labels and advertisement, sometimes the objects themselves) and many other mundane objects and products-- including jumbo formats, are regarded by many and collected as art. In general they are frequently collected as a form of nostalgia art, sometimes regarded as kitsch, or for its illuminating of a small cross section of modern life. In many cases these are also desirable for the true thoughtful care and artistry that went into their design. You'd find very few designers of logos etc. that do not in some way regard what they do as a form of art, even if it doesn't rise to the level (highly subjective) of "high art".