grotesquerie

Grotesque

Some work developed as a way of exploring what can be considered grotesque. Grotesque, as a noun is defined by Google as:"a very ugly or comically distorted figure, creature, or image."
Or by the Merriam Webster's dictionary:"1a: a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature
1b: a piece of work in this stylean ornate structure, embellished with grotesques
2: one that is grotesque
https://polylines.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/grotesque-the-propaganda-of-the-smile/ ... Beauvoir's abiding philosophical pre-occupation - the relationship between the self and the other.(wikipedia)