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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | Observer review: Anthony Blunt by Miranda Carter |
 | | Rebecca West was contemptuous of Blunt, having known him in the 1930s, and regarded him then as intellectually lightweight, a known Communist, always sporting a red tie and frequently drunk. |
 | | Now that Blunt is long dead, remembered at least as much as a spy as an art historian, his own testament locked away in the British Library, Carter has taken the opportunity to write a biography that provides a dispassionate account of his life. |
 | | As a young don, Blunt was converted from the idea of art for art's sake as espoused by his friends in Bloomsbury to an intellectual form of Marxism, which much influenced his critical writings in the Spectator. |
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