Anthony Blunt

Author: Miranda Carter
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374105310
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 590

Book Description
Chronicles the life of art historian Sir Anthony Blunt, exploring his private and public personas and how he used his connections within English high society to work as a Soviet spy until he was exposed by Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

Borromini (Revised)

Author: Anthony Blunt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674079267
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
At first glance, Borromini's architecture is a flight of Baroque fantasy, the product of limitless imagination. A closer look reveals an almost ruthlessly logical geometry underlying his creation. Blunt shows how the combination of revolutionary inventiveness and intellectual control gives Borromini's work its great appeal.

Conspiracy of Silence

Author: Barrie Penrose
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 678

Book Description
Traces the life of Blunt, art historian and Russian spy, explains how he became involved in espionage and discusses his relationship to Kim Philby.

Guide to Baroque Rome

Author: Anthony Blunt
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : it
Pages : 344

Book Description

Roman Baroque

Author: Anthony Blunt
Publisher: Pallas Athene
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
This study provides an introduction to the glories of Roman baroque architecture and its three greatest exponents, Bernini, Borromini and Cortona.

A Question of Retribution?

Author: David Canadine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197266786
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Through previously unpublished documents, this volume revisits the public furore 40 years ago when the British Academy chose not to expel from its Fellowship the eminent art historian,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.

The Climate of Treason

Author: Andrew Boyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520

Book Description
Om de engelske kontraspioner Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Harold Philby (Kim) og "Basil" ("the fifth man")

Picasso's 'Guernica'

Author: Anthony Blunt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description

Sicilian Baroque

Author: Anthony Blunt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural photography
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description

Degenerate Moderns

Author: E. Michael Jones
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 9780898704471
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
In this groundbreaking new book, Jones shows how some of the major determining leaders in modern thought and culture have rationalized their own immoral behavior and projected it onto a universal canvas. The main thesis of this book is that, in the intellectual life, there are only two ultimate alternatives: either the thinker conforms desire to truth or he conforms truth to desire. In the last one hundred years, the western cultural elite embarked upon a project which entailed the reversal of the values of the intellectual life so that truth would be subjected to desire as the final criterion of intellectual value. In looking at recent biographies of such major moderns as Freud, Kinsey, Keynes, Margaret Mead, Picasso, and others, there is a remarkable similarity between their lives and thought. After becoming involved in sexual license early on, they invariably chose an ideology or art form which subordinated reality to the exigencies of their sexual misbehavior.