Apparency Half a century ago, Stern discussed this attribute of an artistic object and called it apparency. While art is not limited to this single end, he felt that one of its two basic functions was "to create images which by clarity and harmony of form fulfill the need for vividly comprehensible appearance." In his mind, this was an essential first step toward the expression of inner meaning. Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City artmeaningimagesharmonyform
Platforms Show image 0 Show image 1 Original by Tanaka, and my own digital tracing. Tomoyuki Tanaka, Anatomical Drawings of Staircase Spaces Tablets have caught up