Casa de las Américas (cover design: Raúl Martínez; director: Manuel Galich; jefe de redacción: Carlos Espinosa; diseño y emplame: Ramón Melián), "CONJUNTO No. 58," October-December 1983. Print magazine

This commemorative issue of CONJUNTO marks the 130th anniversary of José Martí's birth in 1983, featuring Raúl Martínez's striking cover design that centers Martí within a bold graphic composition. The cover presents a small white figure of Martí surrounded by monumental blue faces rendered with red outlines, interspersed with delicate white roses—creating a dynamic tension between intimate portraiture and heroic scale. Martínez's design employs his characteristic Pop Art vocabulary to transform nationalist iconography, using high-contrast colors and simplified forms to create a contemporary visual language for revolutionary memoria. The juxtaposition of the diminutive Martí figure against the looming profiles suggests both the enduring presence of Martí's ideas and their amplification through successive generations.

Published during a year of significant anniversaries for Cuba—including commemorations of the 1953 Moncada uprising and Simón Bolívar's bicentennial—this issue features an essay by Fina García Marruz exploring Martí's relationship to theater, emphasizing how his thought resonated across artistic disciplines. CONJUNTO continued to serve as the primary platform for Latin American theater discourse, publishing critical studies, interviews, and documentation of theatrical movements across the hemisphere. The magazine's commitment to Martí's legacy reflected broader cultural efforts to position Cuban revolutionary theater within a long tradition of anti-imperialist thought and aesthetic innovation.