Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name that first appeared last year in the Nether...

What is it about etching that renders it – according to both the poet-critic Charles Baudelaire and the visionary artist Samuel Palmer – a medium of writing? And, moreover, what makes etching equally adaptable to the expression of both memory and mod...