July 19, 2008: žižkov TV Tower

[Imigo Jones]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Not at all. I was answering newtimer's question, why the babies' heads look strange, pointing out it's because of the type of sculptor(artist) Cerny is.

Oh, okay. I thought that the quotation marks signified sarcasm over applying the term artist to anyone who would create such hideous-headed babies, like saying, "the so-called artist, David Cerny." Which is one legit attitude to take toward Cerny, the purposes of whose entire body of work (I dug around a good bit after following your two links) seem to be to (a) get noticed and (b) provoke controversy. Sometimes Cerny has the agenda (hidden or overt) of commenting on the political or cultural situation (as revealed in quotation in earlier post). Sometimes he's just trying to attract attention.

The hideous-headed babies seem to be a "successful" work of art (so-called!) along the latter lines, since here we are discussing it. I guess to an artist who's an attention ho, "there's no such thing as bad publicity." Otherwise, I didn't see anything that suggested Cerny was making any kind of statement about something with the babies, or with the fact that their faces are like that.