Sentence:  Depicted , Cubist flatness is now almost completely assimilated to the literal , undepicted kind , but at the same time it reacts upon and largely transforms the undepicted kind - and it does so , moreover , without depriving the <WSD>latter</WSD> of its literalness ; rather , it underpins and reinforces that literalness , re-creates it . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several)