Dickie and Danto have many simmilarities in their views of the artworld. However, the main difference, is that Danto includes the knowledge condition, and Dickie's does not.
Danto discusses the concept of contextual knowledge of the history of the artworld. With greater knowledge comes a greater understanding of art, contextually speaking. Danto elaborates upon this, and with this knowledge comes greater status and power within the art community.
Dickie however, discards this knowledge concept..I do think this would have greatly enhanced his definition. Without the knowledge condition, his social institution, his artworld, and his definition of art, becomes almost opaque in its flexibility, and seems almost to be playing politics in some aspects of the definition, such as his examples of Cohen's argument of aesthetic appreciation, and his conditional clause of candidacy and conferred status, seemingly meaning the same thing. I think the knowledge condition would have strengthened the structure, credibility, and quality in his artworld.
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