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Anthony Blunt
British art historian and Soviet spy (1907–1983)
Anthony Blunt | |
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| Born | Anthony Frederick Blunt (1907-09-26)26 September 1907 Bournemouth, Hampshire, England |
| Died | 26 March 1983(1983-03-26) (aged 75) Westminster, London, England |
| Burial place | Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium, London, England |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Art historian, professor, writer, spy |
| Awards | KCVO, revoked in 1979 on the grounds of treason |
| Espionage activity | |
| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
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Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983),[4] styled Sir Anthony BluntKCVO from 1956 until November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy.
Blunt was a professor of art history at the University of London, the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. His 1967 monograph on the French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin is still widely regarded as a watershed book in art history.[5] His teaching text and reference work Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700, first published in 1953, reached its fifth edition (in a version slightly revised by Richard Beresford) in 1999, at which time it was still considered the
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“The film of Kennedy's assassination is the Sistine Chapel of our era”
01/07/1999
J.G. Ballard, author of The Empire of the Sun, chooses seven images and explains his passion for Surrealism and the importance that Pop Art, Francis Bacon and photography have had for him.
London. The art critic William Feaver and his colleague Judy Digney, in collaboration with The Art Newspaper, are presenting a series of interviews, “The mind's eye”, sponsored by the Tate Gallery. While most critical writing about the visual arts is done by art historians, critics or other individuals can be highly specialised in their responses to and interests in art. The “Mind's Eye” takes an “inter-disciplinary” approach, examining the place art has in the work and experience of individuals whose fame and expertise lies in other fields. Among those taking part in the series are the film and opera director Nicholas Hytner, the novelist Doris Lessing, and Denis Healey, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer. To a packed auditorium, the internationally renowned novelist J.G. Ballard talked with William Feaver about the artists and works of art that had had a significant impact on him. J.G. Ballard is perhaps best known for his book, The Empire