The role of the Popular Socialist Party in the formation of Cuban cultural policy after 1959

Abstract

The article addresses the analysis of how the aesthetic and political ideas of the Cuban Popular Socialist Party formed the core and nurturing environment of what would be the subsequent revolutionary cultural policy. The main authors analyzed here are Mirta Aguirre, Carlos Rafael Rodríguez and Juan Marinello, the most important theorists of this institution in aesthetic terms. His main ideas revolved around the assumption of socialist realism. For this they advocated a nationalist, popular and decolonizing art.