Sentence:  These areas by virtue of their abrupt density of pattern , stated the literal surface with such new and superior force that the resulting contrast drove the simulated printing into a depth from which it could be rescued - and set to shuttling again - only by conventional perspective ; that is , by being placed in such relation to the forms depicted within the illusion that these forms left no room for the typography except near the <WSD>surface</WSD> . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary