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Show 146 field can be excluded. It is evident that answers to some of the most fundamental questions posed simultaneously by both art and science cannot be extracted from one field alone. Incursion into fields outside one's own area of research can result in new insights for each. Such insights often occur spontaneously, when isolated information suddenly points to other seemingly unrelated facts, which when combined, may appear in a totally new light. Such "trespassing as a scientific technique" was used with positive results in this research. Conclusions drawn from this examination were possible only through this technique of trespassing. It is evident that there is an adversarial relationship between science and art--between the real and the ideal-both of which are represented in Bodmer's struggle to paint the American West and to produce his aquatints for Travels. Nonetheless, scientific documentation and illustrative art are not necessarily incompatible. As long as the purposes of each are closely defined, it is possible to distinguish between the two and, thus, extract information pertinent to both. Under these circumstances, art's interpretive function complements, rather than conflicts with, reportive documentation. It is clearly advantageous that Maximilian's expedition was documented by both the watercolors and the subsequent aquatints. This provides historians and ethnologists, as well as art historians, with two sources from which to extract information pertinent to their studies. Through careful comparison between the primary documentation of the watercolors and the secondary documentation of the aquatints, the fullest details of the events Maximilian |