ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MODERN POETRY AND POETICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 “Futurist Manifesto”?
A
Umberto Boccioni
B
Filippo Marinetti
C
Vladimir Mayakovsky
D
Aleksander Wat
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

Detailed explanation-2: -The “Manifesto of Futurism, ” written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published on the front page of the French newspaper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909, proclaimed the burning desire of the author and his fellow Futurists to abandon the past and embrace the future.

Detailed explanation-3: -Futurism was launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro.

Detailed explanation-4: -Marinetti is best known as the author of the first Futurist Manifesto, which was written and published in 1909, and as a co-author of the Fascist Manifesto, in 1919.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1910, Boccioni, along with fellow Milanese painters Carlo Carrà and Luigi Russolo, wrote the “Manifesto of Futurist Painters, ” which Balla and Severini also signed.

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