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McKeever has published many texts concerning his travels and the nature of painting, and this selection &ndash; ranging from Piero della Francesca to Joan Mitchell &ndash; brings these together in one volume for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautifully illustrated monograph on the work and texts of Royal Academician Ian McKeever (b. 1946).<br \/>9 Early Days (1977)<br \/>\n11 Field and Flow, the Drawing and the Photograph (1979)<br \/>\n15 Night Flak (1981)<br \/>\n17 Black and White &#8230; or How to Paint with a Hammer (1982)<br \/>\n20 Swedish Lapland (1986)<br \/>\n24 Gr&oslash;nland (1988)<br \/>\n28 Papua New Guinea (1991)<br \/>\n36 Black and White &#8230; and Very Grey Areas (1993)<br \/>\n40 Marianne North, Olana, Hudson, New York (1995)<br \/>\n44 Northeast Siberia (1995)<br \/>\n50 Painting Is Not Flat Art (1995)<br \/>\n51 Thoughts on Emil Nolde (1995)<br \/>\n 56 Siberia (1996)<br \/>\n61 Thinking about Georgia O&rsquo;Keeffe (2002)<br \/>\n68 For Kehnet Nielsen &ndash; In Praise of Painting (2002)<br \/>\n73 Talking Painting (2004)<br \/>\n75 Light (2004)<br \/>\n83 Black (2004)<br \/>\n85 Kurt Kocherscheidt: Between the Wall and the Floor (2004)<br \/>\n91 China (2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":76280,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74658","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-ian-mckeever","8":"publisher-royal-academy-of-arts","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Talking Painting: Writings on Art and Artists, 1977\u20132025 - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: Talking Painting: Writings on Art and Artists, 1977\u20132025, Pages: 232 Pages, Publish Date: 3rd Jun 2026, Author: Ian McKeever, ISBN: 9781915815231. 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