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In the 30-year career captured in this monograph, the Austrian artist Peter Skubic has relentlessly explored the limits of the jewelry medium. Trained to work in gold and silver, he has made steel his primary material in an oeuvre encompassing functional and nonfunctional jewelry, large site-specific works, drawings and at one point an outré project, “Jewellery Under the Skin,” in which a steel implant was inserted under the skin of his arm and removed seven years later. Helen W. Drutt English comments on Skubic’s protean talent: “His works of the 1970s express a strong affinity to sculpture, evident in the cut-rings and severely constructed brooches of 1977 with their cables and planes reminiscent of bridges and electrical structures. Later he tantalizes us with absurd combinations of found object. . . . Skubic’s investigations bring us into the world of performance and conceptual art.”