Ariel Evans
is an art historian living in Austin, Texas.
The day that Brian Connell, Fred Lonidier, Martha Rosler, and Allan Sekula went to Disneyland was only a few months after Augusto Pinochet’s CIA-fueled coup d’etat in Chile on September 11, 1973—not long after Pinochet’s junta banned one of their inspirations for visiting and photographing the park in the first place: the socialist text Para Leer El Pato Donald (How to Read Donald Duck) (1971) by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart.
![Fred Londier, The Double Articulation of Disneyland [detail], 1974. 72 panels. Courtesy the artist.](/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstudio.brooklynrail.org%2Fassets%2F052861d6-737f-4a54-8e63-6cf1a49a2458.jpg&w=3840&q=75)