Main entry:

Carter, Miranda, 1965- author.

Title & Author:

Anthony Blunt : his lives / Miranda Carter.

Publication:

London : Macmillan, [2001]
©2001

Description:

xviii, 590 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Prologue -- Son -- Schoolboy -- Undergraduate -- Angry young man -- Don -- Fellow-traveller -- Recruit -- Talent spotter -- Art historian -- Soldier -- Spy -- Success -- Accessory -- Director -- Private man -- Writer -- Penitent impenitent -- Traitor -- References -- Bibliography and sources -- Index.

Summary:

"When Anthony Blunt died in 1983 be was a man about whom almost anything could be - and was - said. He was accused of everything from causing the death of Allied agents during the war to conspiring to suppress the reputation of British art; from blackmailing the Royal Family to paedophilia. He was a blank screen on which fantasy and delusion were projected."
"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."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0333633504
9780333633502
0374105316

Subject:

Blunt, Anthony, 1907-1983.
Blunt, Anthony 1907-1983
Blunt, Anthony.
Spies Great Britain Biography.
Art historians Great Britain Biography.
Gay men Great Britain Biography.
Espionage, Soviet Great Britain History 20th century.
Historiens d'art Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Espions Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Homosexuels masculins Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Espionnage soviétique Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Art historians
Espionage, Soviet
Gay men
Spies
Biografie
Kunsthistorici.
Spionnen.
Spionage.
Great Britain History 20th century Biography.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle Biographies.
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223058
Call No.: N7480.8.B659 C3 2001
Status: Available