Kostas Karyotakis
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Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece.
Kostas Karyotakis, self-portrait
The poet's birthplace in Tripoli
Kostas Karyotakis in Sykia village of Corinth, with his sister, nephew, and his brother's sister-in-law, year 1927
Optimism, hand written manuscript by Kostas Karyotakis
Lost Generation
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The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that preceded the Greatest Generation. This generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, those who came of age in the 1900s and 1910
Kostas Karyotakis
…iconoclastic themes in Greece. His poetry conveys a great deal of nature, imagery and traces of expressionism and surrealism. He also belongs to the Greek Lost Generation movement. The majority of Karyotakis' contemporaries viewed him in a dim light throughout his lifetime without a pragmatic accountability for their…
Family in Queensland pictured at home (c. 1900)
The Child's Bath by Mary Cassatt from 1893 of a woman giving a child a wash. The link between hygiene and good health was becoming better understood in Western society by the end of the 19th century and frequent bathing had become common.
Class photo taken at a school in Sweden (1900)
Children playing with toys (c. 1890s)