cuba/REVOLUTION et|and CULTURE, the bilingual edition of Revolución y Cultura published by the Ministry of Culture, served as Cuba's primary cultural export during the early revolutionary period, reaching international audiences with content on Cuban theater, visual arts, and revolutionary aesthetics. This issue features Raúl Martínez's striking cover design employing his signature Pop Art style—a grid of nine portraits depicting Fidel Castro in varying expressions, each panel rendered in bold, contrasting color fields of reds, blues, greens, and yellows, with raised fists punctuating the composition. The serialized format directly references Warhol's celebrity portraits while transforming the technique into revolutionary iconography, creating what Martínez termed "popular art, an anonymous graphic art full of humour, irony, gaiety and naiveté."
Inside, Martínez's artist statement articulates his philosophy of combining graphic immediacy with political content, describing how he moved from singular images of Martí to dynamic, serialized compositions that capture revolutionary energy through spontaneous color use and repetition. The magazine documented Cuba's theatrical renaissance, featuring interviews with directors and actors reshaping Cuban performance, and served as a crucial platform for explaining revolutionary cultural developments to international audiences during a period when Cuba sought to position itself as a leader in socially engaged art across Latin America and beyond.