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His Lives

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An edition of Anthony Blunt: His Lives (2001)

Anthony Blunt

His Lives

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Anthony Blunt, aesthete, communist, homosexual, MI5 agent and Soviet mole, was Surveyor of the King's Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute. Betrayed in 1963, he voted for Margaret Thatcher in 1979. Late that year, she was to expose his treachery and strip him of his knighthood. While the other Cambridge spies (Philby, Burgess and Maclean) subordinated their lives and careers to espionage, Blunt had a separate passionate existence. His reputation as an art historian was second to none: he made an enormous contribution to the establishment of art history as an academic discipline; his volumes on Poussin, French and Italian art and old master drawings are still in print and some are still set texts. At the Courtauld he trained a whole generation of world-class academics and curators. A human paradox, Blunt was a highly-regarded member of the British intelligentsia but his life as such and as a member of the British homosexual subculture of the 30s, 40s and 50s has hardly been explored. Miranda Carter's biography shows how his life vividly illustrates certain key themes and moments of the 20th century. Blunt led two totally discrete lives, he was a set of permanent contradictions.

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Cover of: Anthony Blunt
Anthony Blunt
April 2005, TusQuets
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Anthony Blunt
Anthony Blunt: His Lives
March 19, 2003, Picador
Paperback in English
Cover of: Anthony Blunt
Anthony Blunt: His Lives
January 15, 2002, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: Anthony Blunt
Anthony Blunt: His Lives
October 11, 2002, Pan Books
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Anthony Blunt
Anthony Blunt
November 9, 2001, Macmillan
Hardcover
Cover of: Anthony Blunt
Anthony Blunt: his lives
2001, Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Anthony Blunt
Anthony Blunt: his lives
2001, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English - 1st American ed.

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"For a man whose posthumous reputation would be mired in myths and rumours, Anthony Frederick Blunt had prosaically conventional beginnings."

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OL7422964M
ISBN 10
0374105316
ISBN 13
9780374105310
Library Thing
143497
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833266

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