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Later this month, a new book should be of interest to fans of the artwork of Artist John Alvin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Alvin has created over one-hundred-and-thirty movie posters, including the one for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.<\/em><\/p>\n “John Alvin was an American movie artist who painted movie poster art for over one-hundred-and-thirty films, including E.T., Blade Runner, The Lion King, The Princess Bride<\/em> and Jurassic Park<\/em>, as well as the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter<\/em> and Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em> film series. He also produced work for Disney Fine Art<\/em> (Disney<\/em> character official portraits)”<\/p>\n “John Alvin’s movie poster art is among the most iconic of the last forty years, from Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast<\/em> and Pinocchio<\/em>, to Empire of the Sun, Gremlins, Blazing Saddles, Predator<\/em>, and Star Wars<\/em> thirtieth anniversary posters.<\/p>\n Andrea Alvin<\/strong> worked with John in his studio, and has “contributed substantially to the creation of ad campaigns for such movies as: Batman Returns <\/em>and Batman Forever<\/em> for Warner Bros.<\/em>, and Pinocchio, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules <\/em>and The Little Mermaid <\/em>for Disney Studios<\/em>.”<\/p>\n The Art of John Alvin<\/em> will be released August 26, and can be pre-ordered here<\/a>, where it will sell for $21.12.<\/p>\n Some never-before-seen poster sketches for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country<\/em> and the final poster artwork for the movie can be seen above left and below. Click on each thumbnail to enlarge.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country<\/em> \u00a9 1989 by Paramount Pictures Corporation<\/em>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Later this month, a new book should be of interest to fans of the artwork…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456],"tags":[7622],"class_list":["post-35681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-the-art-of-john-alvin"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Books<\/a>","tag_info":"Books","comment_count":"4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35708,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35681\/revisions\/35708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"StarTrekFinal\"](\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/StarTrekFinal.jpg\")
<\/a>Written by Alvin’s window Andrea, an experienced graphic designer in her own right, and published by Titan Books, The Art of John Alvin<\/em> “collects some of Alvin’s finest work, but also includes previously unseen comprehensives and in progress sketches.”<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n