Flight
| Artist | Tanabe Kōchikusai (Japanese, 1935 - 2021) |
|---|---|
| Title | Flight |
| Date | 2012 |
| Medium | Madake, susutake, and rattan |
| Dimensions | Overall: 20 × 17 × 17 in. (50.8 × 43.2 × 43.2 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Ann Shilling Harrison in memory of Wade C. “Rusty” Harrison II, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 2019.141 |
| This artwork is currently on view. | |
Tanabe Kōchikusai was one of Shōno Shōunsai’s seven students who constituted a group called Shomonkai. Influenced by his teacher’s groundbreaking 1958 work Shimmering of Heated Air, Kōchikusai created Flight using the same parallel-line technique to express motion.
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"Flight | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2019.141