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Nico: Desolation Angel

The truths sought by an artist like Nico are elusive, personal, equivocal. Nico is a perfectionist of anti art; a pessimist who somehow manages to fashion beautifulhallucinations from her sense of isolation. Her songs unite the search for, and despair of, salvation with the existential traditions of the European chanteuse.

May 1, 1970

Nico: Desolation Angel

The truths sought by an artist like Nico are elusive, personal, equivocal. Nico is a perfectionist of anti art; a pessimist who somehow manages to fashion beautifulhallucinations from her sense of isolation. Her songs unite the search for, and despair of, salvation with the existential traditions of the European chanteuse. The fleeting, shadowy . figures who populate her world are possessed of an irreconcilable melancholy, lost in a nihilist void. While many artists examine the plight of their characters, Nico is more concerned with the structure of the trap.

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