Ernesto Capello is Professor of History at Macalester College.Julia B. Rosenbaum is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College.

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• 1. Introduction: The Expeditionary Impulse Part I: Seeing and Not Seeing 3. Triangulating the View: Art and the Great Surveys of the American West in the 1870s 4. Cartographic Representation in the Age of Vernacular Landscape: Pictorial Metaphor in Stephen Long’s Map of the Country Drained by the Mississippi (1822) 5. Seeing Solitary Deserts Full of People: The Chorographic Commission in Colombia’s Eastern Plains, 1856 Part II: Lines and Tracings 6. Intervisible Border: Photographs and Monuments Along the US-Mexico Boundary 7. "Visual Expeditions" Supporting Geopolitical Vindications: Maps, Photographs and Other Visual Devices in the Diplomatic Dispute over the Andes as a Natural Border (1900) 8. Female Eyes on South America: Maria Graham in Brazil 9. Science, Wonder, and Tourism in the Early Mapping of Yellowstone National Park Part III: Art and the Expeditionary Impulse 10. Delineating Land: Art, Mapping, and the Work of Frederic Edwin Church 11. Albert Operti: An Arctic Historical Painter and the Popular Sublime

Ernesto Capello is Professor of History at Macalester College.Julia B. Rosenbaum is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College.

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• 1. Introduction: The Expeditionary Impulse Part I: Seeing and Not Seeing 3. Triangulating the View: Art and the Great Surveys of the American West in the 1870s 4. Cartographic Representation in the Age of Vernacular Landscape: Pictorial Metaphor in Stephen Long’s Map of the Country Drained by the Mississippi (1822) 5. Seeing Solitary Deserts Full of People: The Chorographic Commission in Colombia’s Eastern Plains, 1856 Part II: Lines and Tracings 6. Intervisible Border: Photographs and Monuments Along the US-Mexico Boundary 7. "Visual Expeditions" Supporting Geopolitical Vindications: Maps, Photographs and Other Visual Devices in the Diplomatic Dispute over the Andes as a Natural Border (1900) 8. Female Eyes on South America: Maria Graham in Brazil 9. Science, Wonder, and Tourism in the Early Mapping of Yellowstone National Park Part III: Art and the Expeditionary Impulse 10. Delineating Land: Art, Mapping, and the Work of Frederic Edwin Church 11. Albert Operti: An Arctic Historical Painter and the Popular Sublime

Ernesto Capello is Professor of History at Macalester College.Julia B. Rosenbaum is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College.

Select Guide Rating

• 1. Introduction: The Expeditionary Impulse Part I: Seeing and Not Seeing 3. Triangulating the View: Art and the Great Surveys of the American West in the 1870s 4. Cartographic Representation in the Age of Vernacular Landscape: Pictorial Metaphor in Stephen Long’s Map of the Country Drained by the Mississippi (1822) 5. Seeing Solitary Deserts Full of People: The Chorographic Commission in Colombia’s Eastern Plains, 1856 Part II: Lines and Tracings 6. Intervisible Border: Photographs and Monuments Along the US-Mexico Boundary 7. "Visual Expeditions" Supporting Geopolitical Vindications: Maps, Photographs and Other Visual Devices in the Diplomatic Dispute over the Andes as a Natural Border (1900) 8. Female Eyes on South America: Maria Graham in Brazil 9. Science, Wonder, and Tourism in the Early Mapping of Yellowstone National Park Part III: Art and the Expeditionary Impulse 10. Delineating Land: Art, Mapping, and the Work of Frederic Edwin Church 11. Albert Operti: An Arctic Historical Painter and the Popular Sublime