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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

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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