United Nations Building, Tapestry Commemorating the Chernobyl Tragedy (New York, NY) : Detail, lower center showing phoenix rising and Madonna figure carrying child
- Creator:
- Kishchenko, Alexander, 1933-1997
- Published/Created:
- Borders the East River; 760 United Nations Plaza; Gift from Ukraine, United Nations Building, New York, New York, United States
1991 - Date Depicted:
- 6/21/2011
- Materials:
- wool
- Notes:
- 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.
- Variant Titles:
- Chernobyl
- Period/Style:
- Twentieth century
- Culture:
- Ukrainian
- Accession Number:
- 6A2-US-NY-TCCT-A06
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
furnishings: wall hangings: tapestries (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Sculptures, Models, & Architecture - Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- furnishings; wall hangings; tapestries
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Eight
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
6/21/2011 12:00:00 AM - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2013; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4654
- OID:
- 10903933
- PID:
- digcoll:1856891