Anthony Blunt

Author : Miranda Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333633502
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthony Blunt written by Miranda Carter and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anthony Blunt: His Lives reveals the man behind the myths and rumours: aesthete, communist, homosexual, spy. As Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunt's position as a stellar member of the Establishment had seemed utterly assured. But, in 1979, Margaret Thatcher exposed him as a former Soviet spy, and Blunt was stripped of his knighthood and became a figure of universal opprobrium."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Barrie Penrose
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy of Silence written by Barrie Penrose and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of Blunt, art historian and Russian spy, explains how he became involved in espionage and discusses his relationship to Kim Philby.

Author : Anthony Blunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baroque & Rococo written by Anthony Blunt and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307560929
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Untouchable written by John Banville and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most dazzling and adventurous writers now working in English takes on the enigma of the Cambridge spies in a novel of exquisite menace, biting social comedy, and vertiginous moral complexity. The narrator is the elderly Victor Maskell, formerly of British intelligence, for many years art expert to the Queen. Now he has been unmasked as a Russian agent and subjected to a disgrace that is almost a kind of death. But at whose instigation? As Maskell retraces his tortuous path from his recruitment at Cambridge to the airless upper regions of the establishment, we discover a figure of manifold doubleness: Irishman and Englishman; husband, father, and lover of men; betrayer and dupe. Beautifully written, filled with convincing fictional portraits of Maskell's co-conspirators, and vibrant with the mysteries of loyalty and identity, The Untouchable places John Banville in the select company of both Conrad and le Carre. Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction "Contemporary fiction gets no better than this... Banville's books teem with life and humor." - Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review "Victor Maskell is one of the great characters in recent fiction... The Untouchable is the best work of art in any medium on [its] subject." -Washington Post Book World "As remarkable a literary voice as any to come out of Ireland; Joyce and Beckett notwithstanding." -San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Anthony Blunt
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Baroque Rome written by Anthony Blunt and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Miranda Carter
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509893466
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthony Blunt written by Miranda Carter and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Anthony Blunt died in 1983, he was a man about whom almost anything could be - and was - said. As Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunt's position was assured until his exposure in 1979 left his reputation in tatters. Miranda Carter's brilliantly insightful biography gives us a vivid portrait of a human paradox. Blunt's totally discrete lives, with their permanent contradictions, serve to remind us that there is no one key to any human being's identity: we are all a series of conflicting selves.

Author : David Canadine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197266786
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Retribution? written by David Canadine and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through previously unpublished documents, this volume revisits the public furore 40 years ago when the British Academy chose not to expel from its Fellowship the eminent art historian, Anthony Blunt, who had been exposed as a former Soviet spy. David Cannadine portrays the main characters in this episode which rocked the academic establishment.

Author : Anthony Blunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843681199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Baroque written by Anthony Blunt and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baroque, for many the most thrilling architectural style ever created, was born in Rome and reached its apogee in the work of three geniuses born in the 1590s--Bernini, Borromini and Pietro da Cortona. Perhaps the greatest student of the style was Anthony Blunt, who spent a lifetime studying and teaching the work of these architects and their importance to us now. This elegant and concise introduction to the style and its flowering in Rome was first published in an anthology of essays in 1978, not long before Blunt died, and represents a summation of his teaching. It is republished here separately, copiously illustrated with contemporary engraved views and measured drawings. Many of these ravishing images have not been republished since the beginning of the 18th century.

Author : Andrew Boyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Climate of Treason written by Andrew Boyle and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om de engelske kontraspioner Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Harold Philby (Kim) og "Basil" ("the fifth man")

Author : Anthony Blunt
Publisher : London, Phaidon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paintings of Nicolas Poussin written by Anthony Blunt and published by London, Phaidon. This book was released on 1966 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: