kitsch

rihkama, kitsi art Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.
1939, w:Clement Greenberg|Clement Greenberg, "http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/kitsch.html Avant Garde and Kitsch", The Partisan Review,

Because it can be turned out mechanically, kitsch has become an integral part of our productive system in a way in which true culture could never be, except accidentally.

(..) a picture of lemur-eyed children of the sort one sees in the kitscher sort of Italian restaurant (..)

Abe Lincoln, Paul Bunyan and kitsch souvenir coconut heads come across as icons of masculinity.

I recognized her at once even though she wasn't wearing the tweed hunting outfit and the kitsch headwear.

Min mosters handmålade madonnastaty i elfenben är ren kitsch.

“My aunt’s hand-painted ivory Madonna statue is pure kitsch.”