Abstract EN:

This dissertation intends to study the creative imaginative worlds of five twentieth-century artists linked to the Surrealist movement : Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Gisèle Prassions, Dorothea Tanning and Unica Zürn namely. By focalizing on their double practice, i. E. Their literary and visual art practice, our study aims to define the originality of their “inscapes”. Their works, which are focused on self-representation, question the notions of reflection and identity and the fact of belonging to a particular gender. Deeply influenced by traditional or conventional codes and models, these artists emphasize the difficulties to define one’s position in a world still largely dominated by patriarchal discourses.