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 <WSD>contour</WSD> obliterating facet-planes by which plasticity was isolated under the Cubist method , the subject itself became largely unrecognizable . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)