The Anti-Market Myth of Conceptual Art: An Analysis of the Institutional Collecting and Secondary Market Performance of Works by Conceptual Artists Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner

A common misconception regarding the Conceptual art movement is that Conceptual artists held anti-market sentiments and strove to negate the commodity status of the art object. This thesis analyses the institutional collecting and secondary market performance of works by Conceptual artists Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner to show that they worked comfortably within the art world, achieving considerable success with bodies of work that indeed lend themselves to collecting.