Richard A. Sundt

Department of Art History
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5229
U.S.A.

phone: 541-346-1418 or 4698
email: rsundt@oregon.uoregon.edu

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Curriculum Vitae in Brief

II. Research Interests

III. Work in Progress

IV. Courses

V. Dissertation Census Project

I. CURRICULUM VITAE IN BRIEF

EDUCATION

PH.D., 1981 and M.A., 1973, University of Wisconsin, Madison. B.A., 1963, Indiana University, Bloomington.

EMPLOYMENT

1983-to present: Department of Art History, University of Oregon. Associate Professor since 1990.

PUBLICATIONS: SELECTED WORKS

"Architectural Simile, Copy, or Original Creation?: The Church of St. Brigid in Brisbane (Australia) and Its Relationship to Gothic Architecture in Southern France," Visual Resources, 15, no. 2, 1999, 149-202. Issue devoted to "The Culture of the Copy."

"On the Erection of Maori Churches in the Mid-19th Century: Eyewitness Testimonies from Kaupapa and Otaki," Journal of the Polynesian Society, 108, no. 1, 1999, 7-37.

"From Half to Full Palmier: Factors Contributing to the Final Chevet Design of Toulouse's Jacobin Church," AVISTA Forum: Journal of the Association Villard de Honnecourt, IX/2, Fall 1995/Winter 1996, 7-15.

"La cathédrale d'Albi et les églises gothiques à chapelles hautes: Style, fonction et difussion," in Autour des maîtres d'oeuvre de la cathédrale de Narbonne: Les grandes églises gothiques du Midi, eds. M. Demore et al., Narbonne, 1994, 121-28.

"The Jacobin Church of Toulouse and the Origin of Its Double-Nave Plan," Art Bulletin, LXXI, no. 2, 1989, 185-207.

"Mediocres domos et humiles habeant fratres nostri: Dominican Legislation on Architecture and Architectural Decoration in the 13th Century," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XLVI, no. 4, 1987, 394-407.

CONFERENCE PAPERS (SINCE 1992): A BRIEF SELECTION

May 2002: "Neo-Gothic in Argentina: Protestant Churches and Catholic Cathedrals," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

May 2002: "The Maori-zation of Neo-Gothic Architecture in Colonial and Post-Colonial New Zealand," also for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

May 1999: "Separate but Equal/Separate and Unequal: Lay Women's Space in the Double-Nave Churches of Male and Female Religious Orders," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

March 1999: "The Interpretation of Albi Cathedral in 19th-Century Architectural Literature and Practice," Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, Victoria, B.C.

March 1996: "The Franciscan Church and Wallseerkapelle at Enns in Upper Austria: Building Chronology, Function and Meaning," Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, Montréal

July 1995: "Interpreting the Form and Character of Medieval Architecture in Southern France: A Critical Evaluation of 19th- and 20th-century Art Historical Literature," International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, England

March 1994: "The Great Portal of Batalha's Capelas Imperfeitas: The Question of Its English Sources Re-examined," Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, Victoria

April 1992: "Up from the Grassroots: The Development of Building Codes among the Mendicant Orders in the 13th Century," Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Albuquerque, NM

RECENT LECTURES

June 2001: "Albi y Tolosa: Las dos iglesias más destacadas del gótico meridional y sus reflejos adentro y afuera de Francia," Universidad de Buenos Aires

April 2001: "Maori vs. Missionaries: Cultural Interference and Compromise in the Decoration of Traditional Maori Churches in 19th-Century New Zealand," University of Oregon Faculty Lecture Series

August 1997: "The Rangiatea Church at Otaki (New Zealand) and the Tradition of Centrally-Placed Piers in Gothic Architecture," Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

March 1997: "Spaces of Male and Female Religious Communities in Gothic Europe: Uses of the Double-Aisled Church," University of California, Santa Cruz

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Archaeological Institute of America
Association Villard de Honnecourt (AVISTA)
College Art Association
International Center of Medieval Art
Medieval Academy of America
Pacific Art Association (for Oceanic art)
Société française d'archéologie
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Society of Architectural Historians

-End of Curriculum Vitae-

Back to the Table of Contents

II. RESEARCH INTERESTS

Since taking a sabbatical in New Zealand in 1997, my research has come to encompass not only two distinctly different periods of architectural history, but also architectural activity in two widely spaced locations within our world, as well as involving two very different traditions. Despite cultural, temporal and geographic distance, my research and publications on Gothic architecture in Western Europe and on Maori art and architecture in Aotearoa New Zealand are bound by certain themes and problems that I first explored in my doctoral dissertation on mendicant architecture in southern France.

At the present time I am chiefly concerned with questions relating to the arrangement, use and experience of sacred space. My investigations center on issues of space and gender as these relate to the churches of both the male and female branches of the mendicant orders in Gothic Europe. The second area of investigation deals with similar problems, but as they manifest themselves in the churches constructed by the Maori people in Aotearoa New Zealand during the 19th century.

KEY WORDS for current research on Western topics:

MENDICANTS, FRANCISCANS, DOMINICANS, WOMEN, NUNS, LITURGY, LITURGICAL SPACE, GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, DOUBLE-NAVE PLAN, AUSTRIA, ENNS

KEY WORDS for current research on Maori topics:

MAORI, ANGLICAN, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, WHARE, TURANGA, MANUTUKE, OTAKI, RANGIATEA, RAHARUHI RUKUPO, MANAIA, LITURGY, LITURGICAL SPACE, GENDER

-End of Research Interest-

Back to Table of Contents

III. WORKS IN PROGRESS

Of several works currently in progress, two are at advanced stages. I am close to completing the first draft on a book dealing with the Anglican Maori churches at Manutuke in New Zealand's North Island. (See below for details.)

I continue doing site and archival work relating to the former Franciscan Church and Wallseerkapelle at Enns, in Austria. The goal is a monographic article on these two Late Gothic monuments. I am exploring problems dealing with building chronology, as well as those emanating from the employment of the double-nave plan in each of these structures. Tentative title: "The Franciscan Church and Wallseerkapelle at Enns and Their Place in the History of Gothic Architecture in Austria."

Wallseerkapelle, Enns, interior view. Photo: R.A.Sundt

Franciscan Church and Wallseerkapelle, Enns, plan.

INTRODUCTION

1. English-styled mission churches and their liturgical arrangements/appointments
2. Maori lay-teachers/catechists as first church builders in outlying districts
3. The first Manutuke church and the decorated and undecorated Maori whare as models for mission churches with centralized supports
4. Missionary interference at Manutuke
5. The "dampening of Maori enthusiasm," fact or fiction regarding the completion of the second Manutuke church?

CHAPTER TWO: ANALYSIS OF THE CARVED PANELS OF THE SECOND MANUTUKE CHURCH

1. The carved panels and their photographic documentation
2. The first set of panels, with the human-figure motif
3. The artists and style of the panels with the human-figure motif
4. "Outdoing Otaki"
5. The second set of panels (the compromise design), with the manaia motif
6. The handling of the manaia motif in the Manutuke context

CHAPTER THREE: RECOVERING AND ASSESSING LOSSES OF THE SECOND MANUTUKE CHURCH: SCALE, ELEVATION AND DECORATION

1. Manutuke II's demise and the fate of its carved and painted panels
2. Rationale and methodology for Manutuke II's reconstruction
3. The evidence for reconstruction provided by the carved mania panels and verification of data given in the primary textual sources
4. Accounting for the number of panels carved for Manutuke II
5. The extant painted panels: heke or poupou?
6. The case for a completed decorative program at Manutuke II

CHAPTER FOUR: THE BUILDING AND DECORATION OF MANUTUKE'S CHURCHES AND THE HISTORICAL SETTING OF THEIR CREATION

1. A proposed building chronology for Manutuke II based on primary textual sources, visual evidence, and physical remains considered in the context of the earlier and later Manutuke churches (I, III and IV)
2. A proposed reconstruction of Manutuke II: Scale, form and decorative composition

CHAPTER FIVE:THE USE OF DECORATED LITURGICAL SPACE AT MANUTUKE

1. The arrangement of liturgical furnishings in Anglican Maori churches with central supports
2. The apportionment of congregational space in Anglican Maori churches based on gender, according to written sources: Otaki and others
3. The apportionment of congregational space at Manutuke based on tribal affiliation and geographic residency, according to textual and visual sources

CHAPTER SIX:THE MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF MANUTUKE'S DECORATION

1. Manutuke II's decorative program and its meaning
2. Manutuke II and the Maori achievement: Creativity, innovation and significance
3. The role of Manutuke's churches in the emergence of the decorated Maori church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

SUMMARY and CONCLUSIONS

ENDNOTES

APPENDIX I: Major and Lesser Primary Sources Documenting Chronologically the Construction and Decoration of Manutuke's Four Churches

APPENDIX II: Inventory of Carved Panels Derived from Photographic Documents

APPENDIX III: Inventory of Extant Carved and Painted panels, with Measurements and Technical Observations

APPENDIX IV: The Carved Human-Figure Panels in Relation to the First Version of Manutuke II

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRATIONS (Photos, charts, reconstruction drawings, computer-aided simulation of interior views)

INDEX

Manutuke II, "in 1851." Interior as originally [?] planned, with a single "stemmed" or "ribbed" element for the central end panel or poutuarongo). Published in the Church Missionary Intelligence,1852; republished in the Church Missionary Gleaner,1884.

Conjectural rough-draft reconstruction of Manutuke II's end wall with five "stemmed" or "ribbed" manaia panels, by R.A.Sundt.

-End of Works In-Progress-

Back to Table of Contents

IV. COURSES

At the University of Oregon, in addition to my specialty, Medieval Architecture, I teach courses in two other areas: Ancient Architecture, and Pacific Art and Architecture. I also offer undergraduate and graduate seminars on various medieval topics, but primarily on Gothic architecture and its revival in the19th century.

LECTURE COURSES (upper-level undergraduate):

History of Western Architecture, Ancient and Medieval
Art and Architecture of the Pacific Islands I, Melanesia
Art and Architecture of the Pacific Islands II, Polynesia and Micronesia

LECTURE COURSES (upper-level undergraduate/graduate):

Greek Architecture
Roman Architecture
Romanesque Architecture
Gothic Architecture I (focussing on the Ile-de-France)
Gothic Architecture II (mainly England, France outside the Paris basin, Spain, and Germany)

RECENT SEMINARS (upper-level undergraduate/graduate):

"Albi Cathedral and Its Influence in the 19th Century in Europe, the Americas and Australasia"
"Architecture, Ideology and Ritual"
"The Architecture and Decoration of the Maori Whare (House)"

-End of Courses-

Back to Table of Contents

V. DISSERTATION CENSUS PROJECT

Currently I am working on a project for the International Center of Medieval Art, the long-range goal of which is to compile and place on-line a list of all completed dissertations on medieval art and architecture.

The International Census of Doctoral Dissertations on Medieval Art and Architecture is under construction (and will be for some time), but can be accessed through this URL:

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rsundt/medcensus.htm

-End of Dissertation Census and of this entire document-

Back to Table of Contents