{"id":8077,"date":"2017-01-04T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2017-01-05T19:42:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:42:40","slug":"anti-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/04\/anti-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why some artists no longer want to be famous<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Aur\u00e9lie MAYEMBO<\/p>\n

\"AnAn art piece protected by a plexiglass pane by British artist Banksy, seen on a beach in Calais, northern France (AFP Photo\/Philippe Huguen)<\/em><\/p>\n

Paris (AFP) – “I love being famous,” the black US comedian Chris Rock once quipped. “It’s almost like being white.”<\/p>\n

But a growing number of artists would rather have success without the encumbrance of fame.<\/p>\n

From the street artist Banksy to the Italian literary phenomenon Elena Ferrante, a new brand of creator is actively rejecting the limelight and doing everything they can to avoid it.<\/p>\n

Even first-time novelists, whose publishers are often desperate for them to go out and promote their work, are thumbing their noses at celebrity.<\/p>\n

One young French novelist, who writes under the pseudonym of Joseph Andras, rejected the country’s top prize for a first book last year because it threatened his anonymity.<\/p>\n

Like Ferrante, whose Naples quartet has become a huge international bestseller, Andras refuses to be photographed and only does interviews via email.<\/p>\n

“A baker makes bread, a plumber unblocks pipes and writers write,” he declared in his only interview, granted to the Communist newspaper L’Humanite. “Everything is in the book, I don’t really see what more I have to add.”<\/p>\n

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