Sentence:  In order to be saved , plasticity had had to be isolated ; and as the aspect of the subject was transposed into those clusters of more or less interchangeable and contour obliterating facet-planes by which plasticity was isolated under the Cubist method , the subject itself became largely <WSD>unrecognizable</WSD> . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration