Vibia’s Tomb, Rome (350c.)

Vibia’s Tomb, Rome (350c.)

The feast that decorates Vibia’s resembles a picnic. Her life story is painted in an indented arch. In a comic strip style, Vibia journeys through Hades to Elysium at her death. On the left, Vibia is being led through an archway labeled Inductio by Good Angel, Angelus...
Richard Attenborough’s Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

Richard Attenborough’s Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)

Attenborough’s Oh! What a Lovely War keeps the essential anti-war satire originally envisioned by Charles Chiltern and Joan Littlewood. New and effective, however, is the film’s final sequence, which begins as a picnic on the grass and ends with a...
Nikka Hazelton’s The Picnic Book (1969)

Nikka Hazelton’s The Picnic Book (1969)

Hazelton prefers picnics that are not spontaneous.. She  contends a picnic begins when you “invite the people and then figure out the food.”  “My idea of a good picnic, she writes, “is one that I can fix up at home and need only carry and unpack at the chosen spot. I...