Research Catalog

Title

Rock of ages, sands of time / paintings by Barbara Page ; text by Warren Allmon ; foreword by Rosamond Wolff Purcell.

Author

Allmon, Warren D.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

Page, Barbara

Description

xxiv, 347 p. : col. ill.; 19 x 29 cm.

Summary

"Each one of Barbara Page's 544 contiguous painted panels represents a million years of the history of life on Earth, with fossil plants and animals depicted at the same scale and in association with each other, just as they might be found by a paleontologist in the field. A muted rainbow of background colors evokes the rocks in which the fossils were found - the Texas Red Beds, for instance, or yellow Solnhofen limestone - and keystone events are shown metaphorically, with fat rolls of paint marking major extinctions or continental drift." "To fully experience the awesome impact of an eon's worth of time spread across 500 feet of bas-relief panels, you'd have to visit the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York, where Page's specially commissioned work will be installed when the museum opens in 2002. But this book is the next best thing. Not only does it contain crisp color reproductions of each painting, but it also includes an accessible essay by paleontologist Warren Allmon giving the scientific context behind the art." "For fossil lovers of all ages, and anyone interested in the merging of art and science, Rock of Ages, Sands of Time will be the find of a lifetime."--Jacket.

Subject

• Page, Barbara > Catalaogs
• Page, Barbara > Catalogs
• Fossils in art > Catalogs

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Note

• "Published in association with the Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 345) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Rosamond Wolff Purcell -- Introduction: Time, Space, Rocks, and Life -- Infinite Possibilities: The Cambrian -- Pattern Emerges: The Ordovician -- Bounceback: The Silurian -- Sea Change: The Devonian -- Jungle Fever: The Carboniferous -- In Cold Blood: The Permian -- Ashes To Ashes: The Triassic -- Continental Divide: The Jurassic -- Zenith, Revolution, And Oblivion: The Cretaceous -- A New World Order: The Tertiary -- Of Ice And Men: The Quaternary -- Rock of Ages, Sands of Time: An Overview.

ISBN

0226644790 (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^00048848^

OCLC

45102961

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library