{"product_id":"9780806197401","title":"Hopi Futurist Volume 41 : The Art and Architecture of Dennis Numkena (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNext to a golf course, in a busy Phoenix neighborhood, a terracotta-colored condo complex of unusual organic shapes and shaded balconies surges into view, its forms recalling Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings across the Southwest. This striking structure is Anasazi Village Condominiums (1983), one of the major contributions that Hopi artist and architect Dennis Numkena (19412010) made to Indigenous American art. Numkena was the first registered Hopi architect and the first Native American architect to helm his own firm. In \u003ci\u003eHopi Futurist\u003c\/i\u003e, the first book focused on Numkena, art historian Danya Epstein tells the story of this groundbreaking artist and his long-overlooked legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBorn on Hopi, Numkena left the reservation at twelve to attend Phoenix Indian School. As a young man, he was inspired to study architecture after a visit to Frank Lloyd Wrights Guggenheim Museum. The first Indigenous architect hired by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Numkena sought to reconceptualize Indigenous and tribal architecture as a living and dynamic practice. Though he initially focused his attention on Indian Country commissions, Numkenas architectural practice expanded to encompass a variety of urban and non-tribal projects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond architecture, Numkena worked in multiple media, including painting and sculpture. He also dabbled in performance, most notably with his artistic direction of the papal audience with Native Americans in Phoenix in 1987 and his costume and set design work on a Hopi version of Mozarts \u003ci\u003eMagic Flute\u003c\/i\u003e that aired on national television in 1982. Through these and other artistic interventions, Numkena inserted Hopi cosmology and aesthetics into Western culture on a national and international stage. Moreover, Numkenas practice foregrounds the overlooked spatial and artistic politics of the Southwests largest city, Phoenix.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHopi Futurist \u003c\/i\u003eargues that Numkenas polymorphic practice and pan-temporal philosophywhat he termed \"Neo-\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67624565670136,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":88.12,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780806197401-1.jpg?v=1791784359","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780806197401","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}