Sight Unseen

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Donald Margulies' Sight Unseen tells the story of Jonathan Waxman, artist as superstar, plunged into the
exorbitant hype of the American art world. Just before his works are celebrated at an exhibition in London, he
journeys to the village where his former lover, Patricia, lives with her British husband, Nick. In their cold, remote
house, Jonathan discovers an early painting of Patricia he'd done when they were young lovers. The subsequent
struggle for the painting embodies the unreconciled passions of the past. Patricia has never forgiven Jonathan for
leaving her, Nick despises Jonathan and the kind of art he produces, and Jonathan has never been able to recapture
the inspiration and purity he felt when he painted Patricia. The characters are forced to deal with the unanswerable
question of anti-Semitism, the legacy of the Holocaust and assimilation, the sadness of lost love, the role of the
artist and the location of the human soul at the end of a ragged century.