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work_nar7abtvm5b2rjlx4fblx2ryqe	Ryan Dohoney	'Élan Vital … and How to Fake it': Morton Feldman and Merle Marsicano's Vernacular Metaphysics	2019	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8029	688	66	'Élan Vital … and How to Fake it': Morton Feldman and Merle Marsicano's Vernacular Metaphysics Merle Marsicano, is Feldman's only other open form piece (along with Intermission 6). Keywords: Morton Feldman; élan vital; vitalism; Bergson; Intermission 6; Figure of In the wake of Joseph's Bergsonist reading of Cage, there has been a broader reconsideration of vitalism's importance to the intellectual history of New York School modernism.4 Art historians including Ellen Landau (2007), Jonathan Katz (2007), and notations for the graph score Marginal Intersection, bits of Extensions 1, 3, and 4, incidental music for a production of Aristophanes' The Frogs, and the first version of Intermission 6.5 Skizzenbuch 3 is among the earliest sources of Feldman's writing about his Feldman's attempts at faking élan vital with Intermission 6 and his work with Marsicano By calling Feldman's and Marsicano's vitalism a vernacular metaphysics, I want to stress the avant-garde's interpenetration with some aspects of popular culture and explore how the Bergson-craze of the	./cache/work_nar7abtvm5b2rjlx4fblx2ryqe.pdf	./txt/work_nar7abtvm5b2rjlx4fblx2ryqe.txt