The Disalienating Realism of William Attaway's Blood on the Forge: Rethinking Black Chicago Renaissance Aesthetics

The concrete is concrete because it is the concentration of many determinations, hence unity of the diverse. It appears in the process of thinking, therefore, as a process of concentration, as a result, not as a point of departure, even though it is the point of departure in reality and hence also the point of departure for observation [Anschauung] and conception. -Karl Marx, Grundrisse (1939)