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“They were remarkable for being so rich, luscious and sumptuous — everything you should not have been doing at a time when conceptual art and minimal art were in vogue,” Mr. Stevens said.

This art was shocking, as Wollheim observed, because it didn’t fit our usual idea of what art was: It had “minimal art content.”

But it’s all tied together with a slick, minimal art style and frantic pop music soundtrack.

Like so many of the artists beatified at Dia’s permanent collection in Beacon, Flavin saw his minimal art as a tool to modify viewers’ perception, and privileged bodily and visual experience above all.

In an essay for Arts Magazine, the British philosopher Richard Wollheim used it to describe a group of artists whose work was characterized by “minimal art content” — that is, a lack of art.