Tara Zanardi (Art History, Hunter College, CUNY)

Candidate statement

Tara Zanardi is Associate Professor of Art History at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches courses on eighteenth-century visual and material culture. She is the author of Framing Majismo: Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Pennsylvania State University, 2016; Honorable Mention for the 2017 Eleanor Tufts Book Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies) and co-editor of Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary: Local Contexts and Global Practices (Routledge; June 2018). She has written articles on porcelain interiors, visual representations of and national debates surrounding the bullfight, ruin imagery produced during the Spanish War of Independence (1808-14), and the relationship between gender and fashion. She is currently writing a book, Artful Politics and Bourbon Identity: The Porcelain Room at Aranjuez. The book situates this tour-de-force interior in the context of Charles III’s political strategies and colonial reform, natural history, porcelain collecting and display, and the relationship between identity and interior design. Zanardi has been an active member of ASECS and HECAA since she was a graduate student.