AbstractThis notification aims to find out what kind of effects furniture and decoration magazines have on the art education. It is possible to mention about two different points of view regarding this subject. The first one argues that products, which take place in these magazines, are results of a design process; they aim to develop creativity of readers besides providing their artistic and aesthetical developments; and thus, they can be useful in the art education. The second one emphasizes that these magazines are products of the popular culture; they serve to the expansion of the popular culture; and thus, they cannot contribute to the art education. Visual arts education aims to enable persons to express their emotions, opinions and observations; and to increase their skills and creativities to an aesthetical level. It is an education activity which teaches persons how to canalize their excitements. The art education is not just/only limited to the visual arts given at schools, and it is required to last for the whole life

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doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.06.867 
CY-ICER 2012 
The role of decoration magazines in the art education 
Candan Ulku a * 
aMersin Universty, Mersin 33169, Turkey 
 
Abstract 
This notification aims to find out what kind of effects furniture and decoration magazines have on the art education. It is possible 
to mention about two different points of view regarding this subject. The first one argues that products, which take place in these 
magazines, are results of a design process; they aim to develop creativity of readers besides providing their artistic and aesthetical 
developments; and thus, they can be useful in the art education. The second one emphasizes that these magazines are products of 
the popular culture; they serve to the expansion of the popular culture; and thus, they cannot contribute to the art education. 
Visual arts education aims to enable persons to express their emotions, opinions and observations; and to increase their skills and 
creativities to an aesthetical level. It is an education activity which teaches persons how to canalize their excitements. The art 
education is not just/only limited to the visual arts given at schools, and it is required to last for the whole life. 
 
Keywords: Decoration Magazines, Art Education 
 
1. Introduction 
This notification aims to find out what kind of effects furniture and decoration magazines have on the art 
education.  
It is possible to mention about two different points of view regarding this subject. The first one argues that 
products, which take place in these magazines, are results of a design process; they aim to develop creativity of 
readers besides providing their artistic and aesthetical developments; and thus, they can be useful in the art 
education. The second one emphasizes that these magazines are products of the popular culture; they serve to the 
expansion of the popular culture; and thus, they cannot contribute to the art education.  
2. Home Decoration Magazines 
Today, various specialist magazines are published in Turkey, as they are across the world; the number of such 
magazines increases daily.  
Magazines come second only to daily newspapers in terms of the press/printed media. They are more permanent 
than newspapers through their different approach to the subject matter and because of their stylistic features. They 
are more durable and effective through their specialized approaches.   
 
* Prof. Dr., Mersin University / Turkey, candanulku@mersin.edu.tr. 
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If a definition of magazine is to be made, the following characteristics should be emphasized: Magazines are 
paperback publications; published at least once a month, sometimes they are weekly. They combine text and 
photography, there is a demand for them from the readers and they are distributed independently from other 
publications.   
In print media, there are many magazines concerned with home decoration or interior design. Some of these are 
the products of foreign/international media groups; others have a more local orientation. Magazines have defined 
their quality and appeal themselves in terms such as, 
1 also 
among those who create these trends. It guides the reader on how the aesthetic values reflected on the pages can 
2
is incontestably in the leader position in Turkey and has been since the very first time of its publication. It offers 
creative ideas for each phase of decoration, in urban or rural living areas, for people with different life styles. It 
gives examples of the movements which have left a mark in the past and which still speak to many people, while also 
following up-to-  3 
When the content of decoration magazines is examined, it is seen that they are very colorful. According to their 
focus areas, they may have columns devoted to decoration (applications, indoor areas, creative advice, decoration 
solutions, objects, interviews, artists, designers etc.), gardens (outdoor areas, landscape advice, and plant care) and 
good living (gourmet dishes, cigars, wine and drink culture, travel and outdoor sports).   
trends in decoration) the work of particular artists/designers and advice on current trends, with the help of an 
accessible text. The task of a journalist specialized in writing for such a magazine is to write in an everyday and 
comprehensible language. This obligation, the use of a simple language, is to enable much wider access to the 
 
3. Notes on Art Education 
Visual arts education aims to enable persons to express their emotions, opinions and observations; and to increase 
their skills and creativities to an aesthetical level. It is an education activity which teaches persons how to canalize 
their excitements.  
The art education is not just/only limited to the visual arts given at schools, and it is required to last for the whole 
life. 
Art education gives individuals the courage to express themselves. It enables individuals to perceive the value of 
life, to be aware of details and to improve the quality of life.Art education may also be considered as a process of 
creative intellectual activity which predicts and generates original and contemporary ideas. One of its key targets is 
aesthetic consciousness of the environment should be developed so that s/he can have a positive effect on the 
environment where s/he lives, to make it more livable. This shows the importance of both the content and the 
application of art education curriculums. Raising individuals who are sensitive to the environment, who can develop 
the environment with aesthetic values and make it more livable is possible with art education. 
 
1 HomeArt: http://www.hepoku.com/dergiler.php?d_id=7 
2 Elle Decoration: http://www.dbr.com.tr/dergiler/elledecor/01021/ 
3  http://www.emecmua.com/YayinDetay.aspx?DID=95 
 
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4. Conclusion 
As is well-known, the establishments which educated and socialized individuals until recently, were the family, 
school and religion. An individual learnt the dominant rules of society via these establishments or via his/her own 
perceptions and experiences. However friend groups, schools and mass media tools such as radio and television 
came to replace these establishments with the advent of the modern era. They undertook the task of socializing the 
individual. Home decoration magazines, which are the subject of the present study, leave even school and family 
education behind by creating and disseminating their own values concerning their subject area and thus they 
stimulate the creativity of individuals.  
 However, we live in a period where identities are chosen, constructed and changed through a culture of 
 
Neither an elite nor a traditional folk culture survives under the living conditions that shape today. We face a 
culture that we call  
The aesthetic environmental consciousness of an individual who feels an inherent need to organize things can be 
improved via art education. For this reason, he/she should have the consciousness of how to organize his/her 
environment. Thus, it may be possible for him/her to see the corridors and passageways of a school, house, street 
and city where he/she lives from a different perspective. 
There are various answers to the que 4. 
The subjects which are addressed in these magazines (especially furniture design etc.) are also addressed in various 
institutions for fine arts education. Photography, graphic design and the overall design of the magazine are the key 
components used to address the above mentioned subjects. The content of these magazines can be used in classes in 
art education institutions and the messages they give can be discussed. A subject chosen from a magazine from 
previous years can be compared to a subject taken from a more recent magazine in order for the teaching to have a 
critical-historical perspective. Moreover, the effect of turning back to the past, as revealed in the art and the products 
displayed in these magazines, can be questioned. The products can be newly discussed and reinterpreted.  
In daily life, magazines are thought to be the places where people who do not know how to organize their 
environments can find an answer. It is known that people are ready to spend a huge amount of time and effort to 
well-done job can create admiration in the people around. For this reason, these magazines play an important and 
guiding role.  
Every society should respond to the aesthetic and emotional demands of its people, no matter what their 
development levels are. Every society should assist individuals in developing their skills in perceiving symbolic 
arrangements and respond to their need to comprehend their own society, it should understand their fears, and help 
them in evaluating the use of their free time.  
There is an interaction between individuals and the mass media tools that they encounter directly or indirectly in 
their daily lives. In the way that many people who want to receive information about cultural events prefer the press 
as a source of information, these magazine publications are the main tools which expand popular culture and 
transform their readers.  
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References 
Elle Decoration: http://www.dbr.com.tr/dergiler/elledecor/01021/ 
 
HomeArt: http://www.hepoku.com/dergiler.php?d_id=7 
 
 http://www.emecmua.com/YayinDetay.aspx?DID=95 
 
Lackey, L.M. (2005). Home Sweet Home? Decorating Magazines as Contexts for Art Education. Studies in Art Education , 46 (4), 323-338. 
 
Lackey, L.M. (2005). Home Sweet Home? Decorating Magazines as Contexts for Art Education. Studies in Art Education , 46 (4), 323-338. 


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