Bill Dyckes at a desk
 

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WRITING


ARTICLES

For American Cinematographer, Los Angeles, Art & Artists, London, Art International, Geneva, El País, Madrid, Fotogramas, Barcelona, New Woman, New York, and others

BOOKS

Spanish Art Now     (Recommended by The Herald Tribune, Paris.)
 
Contemporary Spanish Art     (Recommended by the Encyclopædia Britannica.)

WEB SITES



EDITING


MUSEUM CATALOGS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

TRADE BOOKS

For Harry N. Abrams and other companies, including books on these artists:
Alberto Burri, Willem De Kooning, Giacomo Manzú, Antoni Tàpies

COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS

These books and many more for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and others:
Art in Context, C'est la vie, Medical Spanish, Mosaico de la vida, The Modern Researcher, Psychology and Language, Teaching Elementary Social Studies

SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS

For all of the major publishers.
Topics included social studies, literature, science, Spanish, and English

MAGAZINES

Editor, copy editor, production editor of magazines in Madrid and New York

SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE

 
 
art history
architecture
anthropology
art techniques
language
computing
Internet / Web
Latin America
Germany
Spain
film techniques
photography
film history
video
 
 

LANGUAGES


  • Fluent in Spanish, working knowledge of German, French, and other languages
  • Wrote articles for Spanish periodicals
  • Checked translations of manuscripts from French and Italian (and edited them) for Harry N. Abrams
  • Checked the translation of a German manuscript of The Villas and Country Houses of Mies van der Rohe and edited it for The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Translations from Spanish for the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain, and the Marugame Hirai Museum, Marugame, Japan
  • Translated The Major and the Mermaid, a Spanish children's book

PHOTOGRAPHY & FILM



PRINT PRODUCTION


  • Layout and production of magazines and catalogs in Madrid (letterpress)
  • Layout and production of Arts Magazine (offset)
  • Layout of several of the books I edited at HBJ

COMPUTING & OTHER MEDIUMS



HISTORY


  • 1982-2008  Freelance writer and editor, New York, Denver
  • 1974-1982  College Department, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
  • 1970-1974  Arts Magazine, New York
  • 1963-1969  Lowell Publications, Madrid
 

REFERENCES