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Tapestry Commemorating the Chernobyl Tragedy

Kishchenko, Alexander
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Alternative Title
Chernobyl
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/153674
Date
1991
Description
Detail, right side, winged woman holding child; Hand-woven tapestry whose subject is the Chernobyl disaster (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Chornobylska Katastrofa) which occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially the Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. The Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to have been the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale (the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011). Kishchenko (who died in Minsk) was a mosaicist, tapestry weaver, painter and teacher. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 8/3/2013)
Type of Work
tapestry (wall hanging)
Subject
allegory, contemporary (1960 to present), Nuclear energy, man-made disaster, environmental disaster, Twentieth century
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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