Synopses & Reviews
Do you feel a sin coming on? Do you want to look cheap? Do you ignore your mother's well-meant advice? Anne Taintor is speaking your language. This first-ever collection of her wildly popular artwork celebrates the pleasures of being bad in a good girl's world. Taintor's sassy, saucy creations pair vintage illustrations with witty new slogans, and her well-mannered women enjoy deliciously less-than-well-mannered thoughts. ("Had she made him suffer enough...how could she be sure?") A collection of Taintor's best-loved images on the fun and folly of romance, I Can't Be Good All the Time includes nearly 100 images of nice ladies saying exactly what they mean - and it isn't pretty. We never said it would be pretty.
Synopsis
When they're good, they tell it like it is. And when they're bad, watch out! These images of mannered women with less-than-well-mannered slogans lend a saucy twist to vintage artwork. Move over Mae West--here come this millennium's incomparable tainted ladies, courtesy of artist Anne Taintor. Anne Taintor is speaking your language. This first-ever collection of her best-loved images on the fun and folly of romance, I Can't Be Good All the Time celebrates the pleasures of being bad in a good girl's world. Taintor's sassy, saucy creations pair vintage illustrations with witticisms few can resist, and her well-mannered women enjoy deliciously naughty thoughts.
About the Author
Anne Taintor is a relatively good girl with a slightly checkered past. She now lives in a straw-bale house in rural New Mexico.